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Eschatology of War (2021)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Doom-stoner band from Prešov, formed in 2023. Cosmic Lord delivers heavy, spacious doom and stoner grooves from eastern Slovakia.
Stoner metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs and psychedelic grooves from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolis.
Stoner metal and hardcore punk band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2015, blending influences from Red Fang and Every Time I Die. Their releases including 'Systemic Failure' and 'Superlative Spacetime' deliver a heavy mix of stoner riffs with punk urgency.
Doom-stoner band from Umeå, active since 2013. Cosmic Overlord delivers lumbering, space-themed doom from northern Sweden.
Doom and stoner metal band from Heraklion, Crete, formed in 2014. They deliver thick, fuzz-laden doom-stoner from the Cretan capital.
Doom and stoner metal band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 2023. They deliver heavy, fuzz-laden doom-stoner from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Stoner metal band from Carouge near Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and psychedelic grooves rooted in the heavy traditions of stoner and desert rock.
Stoner metal band from Prato, Tuscany. Cosmotron delivers fuzzed-out, groove-heavy stoner riffs from central Italy.
Sludge-stoner act from the Netherlands, formed in 2024. Cough Syrup with the Goths — a memorably eccentric name — delivers heavy, haze-drenched sludge.
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