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Aboleth is a stoner metal and rock band from Los Angeles, California. Their 2018 full-length "Benthos" delivers ten tracks of heavy, riff-worshipping stoner metal drenched in the low-end rumble of Southern California.
San Francisco stoner metal legends and one of the heaviest bands the Bay Area has ever produced. Their crushing, psychedelic riffs have made them pillars of the American stoner metal scene.
Los Angeles death metal project. The name's hostility channels LA's darker undercurrents through extreme music.
San Francisco stoner metal project. The Greek word for 'sand' channels desert vibes through Bay Area fuzz.
Los Angeles stoner metal collective with a staggering fourteen releases since 2021, making them one of the most prolific heavy bands on the West Coast. Their catalog spans EPs, full-lengths, and everything between, with Nothing Grows In A Straight Line capturing their organic, ever-evolving approach to heavy psych.
Los Angeles stoner metal project from the California underground.
San Diego stoner metal act with a decade-spanning catalog from 2007 to 2017. Their full-length Lords of Light and Thunder lives up to its mythic title, delivering cosmic stoner jams from Southern California's sun-baked coast.
Folsom, California stoner metal project whose 2018 EP Boaz — a biblical reference to one of the pillars of Solomon's Temple — pairs sacred architecture with fuzzy heaviness from the Sacramento suburbs.
Twentynine Palms stoner metal band from the high desert outside Joshua Tree, their sun-scorched, psychedelic doom perfectly mirroring the alien landscape of California's Mojave.
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