You could easily argue that doom and stoner are the two oldest subgenres in metal, given that they trace their roots all the way back to heavy music’s foundational text, Black Sabbath’s debut album.

No other musical genre (aside from reggae) has a stronger connection to the cannabis lifestyle than heavy metal, hence the term ‘stoner metal.’ But of course, this term describes a subgenre that can ...

Check out Merlock’s music at merlock.bandcamp.com/music. For a band made up of three outsiders hailing from different parts of the U.S., it’s uncanny how much ...

Things are about to get a whole lot louder and hazier in Miami. The California stoner-doom metal trio Sleep will stop at Miami’s the Ground June 18 for its first South Florida show. The group, which ...

No other musical genre (aside from reggae) has a stronger connection to the cannabis lifestyle than heavy metal, hence the term 'stoner metal.' But of course, this term describes a subgenre that can ...

Inspired by the slow-motion doom of proto-metal predecessors Black Sabbath, and seemingly birthing an entire genre from their meditative, gargantuan riffs, stoner doom lords Sleep perform a rare live ...

The past decade has seen quite a resurgence in doom metal, so much so that listeners outside of metal have likely heard the word “doom” or “doomy” thrown around with reference to heavy music, psych, ...

Unless someone else takes over the organizing, the Stoner Hands of Doom festival is in its fifth and final year. An annual festival of all bands rock/metal/doom/sludge and loud as hell, it's time to ...

With its roots stretching right back to the earliest days of heavy metal, stoner metal is often seen as one of the metal subgenres closest in spirit to the source of the entire genre. Be it the ...