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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Smaug is a Colorado Springs heavy metal band formed in 2020, blending doom-laden tempos with thrash metal punch and classic heavy metal structure, named after the legendary dragon of Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Smoke Mountain is a stoner and doom metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 2017, channeling thick, hazy guitar tones and lethargic tempos into heavy, weed-ritual doom with a southern flair.
Smokebath is a doom metal band from New York, formed in 2015, crafting slow-motion, heavily distorted doom with a suffocating atmosphere and devotion to the crushing minimalism at the genre's core.
Smokestack Lightning is a psychedelic stoner and doom metal band from Burlington, formed in 2017, channeling Howlin' Wolf's iconic song title into music steeped in hazy, slow-burning riffs and lysergic desert rock atmosphere.
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Miami, Florida doom metal project formed in 2021, conjuring occult-tinged, slow-burning heaviness with an atmosphere reflective of the South Florida underground.
Tallahassee, Florida doom and stoner metal band formed in 2013, blending hazy psychedelic riffs with lumbering sludge tempos in the tradition of Southern fuzz-doom.
Miami, Florida doom metal and punk band formed in 2015, dragging the crusty rawness of punk into slow, feedback-drenched doom territory with a deliberately abrasive edge.
San Francisco progressive doom metal band formed in 2023, crafting elaborate, slowly unfolding compositions that wed psychedelic atmosphere with heavy, deliberate riffing.
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