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San Marcos, TX doom and stoner metal band that mixes heavy psych fuzz with the dirge-like pace of traditional doom. They ride the slow burn of Texas heat into heavy, hazy oblivion.
Champaign, IL doom and stoner metal band that exhales enormous, fuzz-drenched riffs at a pace that borders on ceremonial. Their music is heavy in the way weather systems are heavy.
Charlotte, NC doom and stoner metal band that builds slow, towering walls of fuzz and feeds them through reverb-soaked amplifiers. They have a flair for the dramatic and the catastrophically heavy.
Lyndon Station, WI doom and stoner metal band that sounds like they found something buried and forgotten in the Wisconsin countryside and turned it into riffs. Slow, heavy, and unhurried.
Pasadena, CA doom and stoner metal band that has fully embraced the fuzz-drenched, heavy psych sound cultivated across Southern California. Their music sounds like standing in a warm, swirling darkness.
North Little Rock, AR doom and stoner metal band that devours everything in its path at a slow, unstoppable tempo. Their Arkansas-forged heaviness is deliberate, fuzz-laden, and utterly consuming.
Indiana stoner metal project Couchlock delivers hazy, fuzz-drenched riffs designed to plant you firmly in your seat. The music leans into repetition and warm tonal density, letting grooves breathe and expand.
Richmond, Virginia's Cough are one of the defining names in American doom and sludge metal, known for suffocating low-tuned riffs and punishing tempos. Their albums feel like descending into a tar pit — slow, dark, and inescapable.
Reno band Countress occupy an unusual space between metalcore and stoner metal, mixing heavy downtuned groove with the hooky structures of melodic metalcore. The combination gives their sound a hazy, desert-road quality.
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