Stoner Metal

Full Album Stream: Grave Speaker –Rays of the Emerald Sun

May 14, 2025

Deep-sixed doom slayer Grave Speaker is not just a tokin’ stoner psych band. It’s the solo side project of High ’n Heavy guitarist John Steele.

Track Premiere: Bloodhorse – ‘Saboteur’

April 30, 2025

Hear the second single from Bloodhorse‘s first album in 15 years.

Video Premiere: Moontemple – “Horus”

April 7, 2025

Ohio stoner doom stalwarts Moontemple honor Egyptian god “Horus” in their new beard-forward video.

Full Album Stream: Oculto –Mal de Ojo

March 5, 2025

Low-and-slow Mexico City sludge duo Oculto are back with another psyched-out full-length vinyl LP, Mal de Ojo, exclusively on Things From Beyond Records.

Full Album Stream: Weed Demon – “The Doom Scroll”

January 28, 2025

Stop doom scrolling and listen to The Doom Scroll, the new album from stoner-doom outfit Weed Demon.

Track Premiere: Max Boogie Overdrive – “Stoned Again”

January 11, 2024

“Stoned Again” is the first single from Max Boogie Overdrive‘s upcoming full-length debut of the same name. It’s set for release on CD and digitally via Future Primitive Recordings on March 29.

Album Premiere: Mourn the Light / Ice Howl / High Priest / Archdruid

November 22, 2023

Mourn the Light, Ice Howl, High Priest and Archdruid join forces on a split gleaming with heavy metal sorcery.

Track Premiere: Blessed Black – “Unable”

August 2, 2023

Midwestern doom crew Blessed Black spread their wings with the powerful ballad “Unable.” Bang your head before the EP comes out September 1st.

Album Premiere: Merlock – ‘Onward Strides Colossus’

February 22, 2023

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

Track by Track: AAWKS – ‘((((Heavy on the Cosmic)))))’

November 23, 2022

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

Streaming: Kissing the Sky with Gramma Vedetta’s The Hum of the Machine

May 19, 2022

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.

Album Premiere: Weedevil – ‘The Return’

April 6, 2022

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

Grim Reefer Fest Smokes Up Baltimore on April 16th

March 30, 2022

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

Track Premiere: Dust Prophet – “Hourglass”

December 30, 2021

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

Full Album Stream: Satanico Pandemonium – “Espectrofilia”

December 7, 2021

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

Full Album Stream: Nekromant – “Temple of Haal”

December 2, 2021

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

Video Premiere: Crystal Spiders – ‘Harness’

November 8, 2021

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

Track Premiere: Sarcoughagus – “Genial Sense of Torture”

August 10, 2021

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.

Video Premiere: Montezuma’s Revenge – ‘Soyux-111 (Terrore Su Venere)’

July 26, 2021

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

Track Premiere: Heavy Temple – “A Desert Through the Trees”

May 18, 2021

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.

Track Premiere: Dead Witches – “D.I.E. (Dragged Into Emptiness)”

April 1, 2021

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

Album Premiere: Amammoth – ‘The Fire Above’

March 17, 2021

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

Album Premiere: Possessor – ‘Damn the Light’

October 28, 2020

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

Album Premiere: Junior Bruce – ‘Pray for Death’

October 21, 2020

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