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Lie To My Face (2022) (2022)
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Metallica (Remastered 2021) (2021)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Supersonic Dragon Wagon is a stoner metal band from San Diego, California, active since 2013 and combining fuzzed-out guitar work with the desert-influenced heaviness that thrives in Southern California's DIY underground.
Suppressed Intentions is a San Luis Obispo, California band formed in 2022, fusing metalcore aggression with groove and thrash metal to produce a hybrid sound rooted in the Central Coast's emerging heavy music scene.
Surfeiter is a Los Angeles depressive black metal and noise project formed in 2023, channeling desolate atmospheres and feedback-laden misery in a city better known for its sun but home to a thriving underground extreme metal scene.
Surrender is a heavy metal band from Pasadena, California, formed in 2011, rooted in the classic heavy metal sound of Southern California's historically fertile underground with a straightforward, riff-centered approach.
Surtr is a black metal band from Placerville, California, formed in 2023, taking their name from the Norse fire giant and channeling that mythological ferocity into raw, atmospheric black metal from the Sierra Nevada foothills.
Suspicion is a San Diego, California heavy metal band formed in 2016, rooted in traditional heavy metal before evolving toward a harder rock direction over the course of their career.
Sutekh Hexen is an Oakland, California raw black metal and noise act formed in 2010, known for their harrowing blend of lo-fi black metal aggression and experimental noise manipulation, releasing prolifically across tape and vinyl formats.
Sutratma is a Santa Barbara, California funeral doom and death metal project formed in 2012, producing lengthy, oppressively slow compositions that dwell in dense atmospheres of grief and decay.
Sutrero is a San Francisco, California band formed in 2013 that layers heavy and stoner metal with hard rock influence, delivering thick, fuzz-drenched riffs grounded in the Bay Area's heavy music tradition.
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