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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black Blood (2022)
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Compendium Diablerie: The Demo Days (2008)
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Named with appropriate menace, Lakewood, Ohio's Electric Lucifer play stoner-soaked doom metal with a Sabbath-worshipping dedication — heavy, languid, and thoroughly infernal since 2013.
Akron's Enhailer drifts through the hazy overlap of stoner, doom, and sludge, conjuring thick, feedback-drenched riffs and narcotic tempos suited to the Rust Belt's industrial melancholy.
Columbus, Ohio's Grael began life trading in gothic doom and pivoted toward psychedelic stoner territory, tracing a natural arc from shadow to smoke. Their music carries an underlying mysticism that connects both phases of their evolution.
Dayton, Ohio's Grand Mammoth live up to their prehistoric name, laying down stoner-doom riffs that feel massive and unhurried. The band has been rolling boulders since 2016, their music evoking vast geological weight in every passage.
Painesville, Ohio's Hangnail have been grinding away since 1998, their thrash and grindcore roots keeping them lean and mean across nearly three decades of relentless, no-frills extremity.
Cincinnati's Junior Crime Fighters have been pairing stoner fuzz with doom's crawling tempos since 2014, building a sound out of Ohio's rich heavy underground that rewards patience with crushing, satisfying payoffs.
Dayton's Maharaja wield stoner and sludge metal like a slow-motion avalanche — massive, repetitive, and hypnotic in the best possible way. Since 2014 they've been one of Ohio's most reliably heavy contributors to the low-end underground.
A stoner metal and rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2023, Moontemple pursue the fuzz-heavy, riff-driven aesthetic where amplifier worship and psychedelic repetition are the primary virtues.
Cincinnati stoner metal outfit Moss Mother formed in 2023, working a riff-forward style that favors thick, hazy tones and hypnotic groove — a new act in the Ohio underground leaning into the fuzzy, psychedelic end of heavy rock.
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