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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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Rodha is a stoner/sludge metal band with hardcore influences from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2012. Their releases Welter Through The Ashes and RAW deliver heavy, corroded riffs from the Hamburg underground.
Stoner/doom metal band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2025. Their cosmic name accompanies crushing stoner doom from Norway's third city.
Stoner/sludge metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2012. Their long-running project delivers fuzzy, heavy riff worship from the Scottish capital.
Ronja is a stoner metal/rock band from Aalborg in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2021. The band delivers heavy, fuzz-drenched stoner metal from Denmark's fourth-largest city.
Sludge/stoner metal band from Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland, active since 2012. Their nature-themed name accompanies heavy, riff-driven stoner sludge from the Greater Poland region.
Rosy Finch is a sludge/stoner metal and noise rock band from Alicante on the Costa Blanca of Spain, active since 2013. The band blends heavy sludge and stoner metal with noise rock dissonance from the Levantine coast.
Stoner metal act from Montagnana near Padua, active since 2014 and delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Veneto countryside. Their groove-laden approach channels the warm, hypnotic weight of the stoner tradition.
Stoner metal band from England, active since 2015. Their irreverent name accompanies riff-heavy stoner metal.
Greek band from Chalcis that evolved from nu-metal origins into stoner metal/rock territory since 2024. Their stylistic transformation reflects a shift toward heavier, riff-centered music.
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