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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Slomind channel southern and stoner metal from Dusseldorf, building groove-laden compositions that draw from the American South's heavy music tradition through a Rhine-Ruhr lens. Active since 2013, they bring sun-baked heaviness to one of Germany's most cosmopolitan cities.
Slow Green Thing deliver stoner/doom metal and hard rock from Dresden, building hazy, verdant compositions that match their organic name. Active since 2014, they bring psychedelic heaviness to Saxony's Elbe Valley.
Slug Lord reign over doom and stoner metal from Tampere, building riff-heavy, glacially paced compositions worthy of their gastropod royalty. Active since 2011, they bring slug-monarch heaviness to the Pirkanmaa stoner/doom scene.
Slug Mammoth channel stoner metal from Lahti, building massive, slow-moving compositions that combine slug-pace deliberation with mammoth-scale heaviness. Active since 2016, they bring prehistoric fuzz to the Paijat-Hame scene.
Smoky McBongwater deliver sludge and stoner metal from Boblingen near Stuttgart, their comedic stoner name setting the tone for hazy, riff-driven compositions soaked in THC-fueled aesthetics. Active since 2016, they bring unabashed stoner culture to the Swabian metal scene.
Jonkoping's Snailking have been merging stoner, sludge, and doom metal since 2012. Over a decade from the Smaland capital, their gastropod-royalty name has channeled the slow majesty of the mollusk sovereign into compositions of layered, fuzz-drenched heaviness.
Arkhangelsk's Snowborn pair stoner and doom metal from Russia's Arctic White Sea port since 2017. Their winter-birth name and subarctic origins channel the frozen landscapes of the Russian north into compositions of glacially paced heaviness.
Korolyov's Soileater pair stoner and doom metal from the Moscow-region space-industry city since 2020. Their earth-consuming name and origins in the home of Russian mission control create a contrast between terrestrial consumption and celestial aspiration.
Moscow's Solar Hammer deliver stoner metal from the Russian capital since 2025. Their name combining stellar energy with blunt force channels the percussive heat of a sun-forged instrument into compositions of freshly-minted, fuzz-driven weight.
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