Stoner Metal

Spokane sludge rockers Merlock explore the shadows of psychedelia on their new LP, Onward Strides Colossus.

Canadian fuzz rockers AAWKS go beyond the sun and behind the music to discuss ((((Heavy on the Cosmic))))) track by track.

Dig into sludgy stoner grooves with Black Royal.

Texas occult/doom throwbacks Peth keep it weird on their debut album Merchant of Death.

Hear London-based duo Gramma Vedetta offer their take on stoner rock/metal via third release and debut full-length, The Hum of the Machine.

It’s a double dose of doom with Slomatics and Domkraft.

Brazilian stoner sect Weedevil exhale their debut LP of bongripping riffs and ferocious fuzz, The Return.

Grim Reefer Fest celebrates riffs and spliffs with a nine-band lineup of stoned heaviness on April 16th in Baltimore, MD.

Hear Dust Prophet marry classic metal with literary classics on “Hourglass.”

Mexico City marijuaneros Satanico Pandemonium take us on a dark trip into the spirit world on their latest release.

Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.

Watch the video for “Harness” from stoner metal trio Crystal Spiders featuring Corrosion of Conformity’s Mike Dean.

Cleveland stoner/death quartet Sarcoughagus don’t just hack it, they absolutely crush it, slowly and meaningfully, on their forthcoming debut full-length. Hear the first single from Delusions of the Sick right now.

Watch the video for “Soyux-111 (Terrore Su Venere)” from Russian stoner metal quartet Montezuma’s Revenge.

Philadelphia’s Heavy Temple — at long last — makes their triumphant full-length debut this year. If their future is anything like their newest single, “A Desert Through the Trees,” the sky isn’t even the limit for what’s to come.

Dead Witches — the brainchild of former Electric Wizard drummer Mark Greening — brings towering, fuzzed riffs and glacially-paced occult doom.

Australian doom trio Amammoth light prehistoric joints from a stoner/sludge bonfire on their debut LP, The Fire Above.

UK horror fiends Possessor wield a mighty sludgehammer on their new monster-conjuring LP, Damn the Light.

Floridian sludgelords Junior Bruce return to prove they’re the headless kings of swamp metal with their Pray for Death LP.

Serpents of Secrecy make a “Heel Turn” in honor of late bassist Rev. Jim Forrester.

Riff hard with San Francisco stoner/doom crew Lowcaster.

Black Rainbows worship volume and debut the first song from new album Cosmic Ritual Supertrip.

Check out the video for the opening track “New Ishtar” off the new album from Kansas City psych sludgethrowers Orphans Of Doom.

Wizard Rifle make a lot of noise for a duo.

Watch the new video for stoner metal trio Druids‘s “Shivast.”

Indiana sludge rockers The Mound Builders celebrate ten loud years with their eponymous LP.

Hear High on Fire‘s take on a Thin Lizzy classic.

Rock out to Masters of Time and Space.

Asthma Castle (featuring members of Pig Destroyer, Misery Index and Integrity) tell the story of the “Incline of Western Civilization” with a new song.

Sink your teeth into a gritty new song from Yatra.