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Banana (2018)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Born In Blood (2011)
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Agnauseam is a groove and stoner metal band from Columbus, Ohio. The band blends heavy grooves with stoner metal's fuzzed-out sensibility.
Akashic Haze is a stoner/doom metal band from Circleville, Ohio. Their 2022 EP "Hashteroid" — a portmanteau that tells you everything you need to know — delivers four tracks of hazy, riff-driven stoner doom.
Youngstown stoner metal project from the Ohio underground.
Cleveland stoner metal act riding fuzzy, groove-laden riffs through the Rust Belt, adding to Northeast Ohio's versatile heavy music scene with laid-back, smoke-heavy jams.
Cincinnati power metal project whose 2015 single — featuring a collaboration with Dr. Space — blends cosmic exploration with mythological reference. Echoes Of Mount Ida reaches from ancient Troy to the stars.
Cincinnati heavy and stoner metal band fusing fuzz-drenched riffs and swaggering grooves with the hard-rock DNA that underpins classic heavy metal.
Columbus, Ohio's Crowtalker wallow in the slow, heavy interplay between doom and stoner metal, layering fuzz-drenched riffs over plodding rhythms that settle deep into the bones. Their sound favors atmosphere and sustained weight over aggression.
Youngstown, Ohio doom and stoner metal band spelling out heaviness in a deliberately obscured name as raw and slow as their riffs. CVTTVNMVVTH drags through cavernous, fuzz-drenched dirges from the Rust Belt underground.
Cincinnati's Electric Citizen bring a vintage sensibility to heavy and stoner metal, anchored by soulful vocals and riffs that feel pulled from a forgotten corner of the 1970s rock underground — formed in 2014 but sounding timeless.
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