Apodemus crafts stoner metal and rock from Nizhny Novgorod since 2017. Named after the genus of field mice, their humble rodent identity contrasts with the fuzzed-out heaviness they deliver from the Volga-Oka city.

Thessaloniki's Around the Fire craft a warm, earthy blend of doom, folk, and stoner metal that evokes communal gathering and ancient ritual. Since 2019, they've created music designed for shared experience, built on heavy grooves and folk-tinged melodies.

Artifex blends stoner and thrash metal from Paris since 2014, their Latin name meaning "craftsman" reflecting the skilled construction behind their genre-fusing approach. Their hybrid sound bridges psychedelic haze with thrash's razor-sharp precision.

Aspen has crafted stoner and doom metal from Barcelos in the Minho region since 1995, making them one of Portugal's oldest stoner doom acts. Three decades from this northern Portuguese town famous for its folk pottery rooster have produced a substantial body of hazy, riff-heavy work.

Astraal crafts stoner and doom metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2017. Their double-a cosmic name drives hazy, riff-heavy compositions of astral wandering.

Astral Dog emerged in 2016 from Balmazújváros, a town on the Hortobágy steppe in eastern Hungary, to deliver hazy stoner metal and rock. Their spacefaring canine identity contrasts with the flat, earthbound landscape of the Great Plain that birthed them.

Astral Goat Dominion is a doom and stoner metal band from Germany, formed in 2025, whose name evokes the cosmic, occult, and psychedelic imagery central to the stoner doom aesthetic. The band is among the newest entries in the German stoner doom underground.

Astral Kompakt is an instrumental stoner rock band from Cologne, Germany, whose catalog spans from the 2018 demo through releases like Obacht, Auszeit, and the 2024 album Goldader. The band's purely instrumental approach channels stoner and doom metal's heavy, riff-driven groove without vocals, letting the weight of their compositions speak for itself.

Astrodon is a sludge, stoner, and doom metal band from Germany, formed in 2014, named after the sauropod dinosaur whose massive, prehistoric weight mirrors the colossal heaviness of their sound. The band inhabits the low-end intersection of sludge, stoner, and doom metal where crushing riffs and glacial tempos dominate.