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ELDER Stop the Tour While Their Bassist Is in Hospital With Pneumonia
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Jack Donovan kept playing while ill and was admitted in Portland last week. The band say the rest of the run is postponed for as long as his treatment lasts.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 28, 2026
CARCHARODON Put Out Their Fifth Album Tomorrow, Ten Tracks on Satanath
Stoner Metal Death 'n' Roll
Never on Your Side arrives on 26 September, three years after Sbhorror, from the Ligurian band that has been running on the same two founders since 2003.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
KING BUFFALO Built a Studio, Then Made the Seventh Album In It
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Doomsayer arrives on 4 December, self-released at home and through Stickman Records in Europe, with The Slick and the Dead out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
THE BLACK THUNDER Sing in Polish and English in the Same Song for the First Time
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Ash in My Marrow is the second single from Time Obliteration, the third album, out 16 October on Pagan Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
KING KRAKEN Wrote Shadows Fall After The Blair Witch Project and Put the Melody in the Verses
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
The Cardiff band's third single of the year, engineered by Romesh Dodangoda and Tom Cory.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
ORBITA Put Four Songs on Their First Album and One of Them Runs Fourteen Minutes
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
'Nèkyia' is streaming from 'Farewell to All We've Lost', out 9 October through Aural Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
SUNDOWNER Call the Third Album 'Cesspool' and Name the Songs to Match
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
Out 15 October on Disdain Records. Ten tracks, and the titles do not soften anything.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
MAMA DOOM Dropped the Visuals for 'Picked Clean' and Left Only the Words
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The last single before 'Eminent Womb', out 25 September on Argonauta Records. A lyric video, on purpose.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
GRIN Start a Run of Singles With 'Fuller' and Put Killing Joke Into the Second One
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
The Berlin duo will release songs one at a time until an album lands in January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
WITCH RIPPER Put Out Their KEXP Session the Day Before the Tour Starts
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
Four songs filmed at KEXP Studios in Seattle on 23 July: The Portal, Echoes and Dust, The Clock Queen, The Spiral Eye.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
DOMKRAFT Made 'Night Songs' Around a Guitarist's Year of Surgery
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
'Eclipse (Outlast the Night)' is the airiest thing they have written, and it comes off a record shaped by Martin Widholm's medical crisis. Out 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
EMBERTEARS Tell the Fall of the Aztec Empire From Both Sides, Out 20 November
Progressive Metal Stoner Metal
The Hungarian solo project's third album runs nine songs of sludge, progressive metal and stoner rock, and opens with a video for 'In the Eye of the Hurricane'. Bitume Prods has it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
GREEN LUNG Release 'Necropolitan', Named After London's Seven Victorian Garden Cemeteries
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The fourth album is out through Nuclear Blast, with an animated visualiser for 'Dance to the Grave' and a December tour with High On Fire.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
STONED JESUS Share 'Jackal' From 'Songs to Moon', the Second Part of Their Trilogy
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The Kyiv band's new album is out on 16 October via Season of Mist. The label calls 'Jackal' the proggiest song on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026