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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Sludge, stoner metal, and grunge band from Brussels, Belgium, active since 2009. They fuse the low-end heaviness of sludge with stoner grooves and the raw emotional intensity of grunge from the Belgian capital.
Sludge, stoner, and groove metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2019. They pile heavy grooves atop sludgy foundations with a stoner metal swagger, adding to Sofia's increasingly diverse heavy music landscape.
Doom and stoner metal band from Grimsby, England, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing, fuzz-laden doom from the Lincolnshire coast.
Doom-stoner band from Rome, active since 2013. Cielo Drive — named after the infamous Manson murder location — crafts heavy, ominous riffs with a psychedelic edge.
Sludge and stoner metal band from Piraeus, Greece, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden heaviness from the Athens port district.
Stoner metal band from Rome, formed in 2021. Circle of Rhinos brings lumbering, heavyweight stoner grooves to the Italian capital's underground.
Gothenburg stoner/doom metal outfit formed in 2015, delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness and slow-burning grooves from Sweden's west coast. Their cosmic-themed approach channels the hypnotic weight of the stoner doom tradition.
Doom-stoner act from Moscow, formed in 2023. Clarity Vision delivers heavy, haze-drenched grooves from the Russian capital.
Sludge and stoner doom band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2009. Their discography, from the raw livedemo 2011 through the sprawling instrumental album Doomsdays (2015), showcases a heavy, psychedelic approach to low-and-slow riffing.
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