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Stoner Metal

Stoner metal is slow to mid-tempo metal with fuzzy, bass-heavy guitar riffs, a loose groove and a hazy, psychedelic feel.

It draws on Black Sabbath, 1970s hard rock and psychedelic rock, with thick guitar tone, long repeating riffs and relaxed, melodic vocals. It took shape in California in the early 1990s around bands such as Kyuss and Sleep. The name overlaps with stoner rock, and the two are often used for the same bands. It is warmer and more groove-led than doom metal.

Artists it is known for: Kyuss, Sleep, Electric Wizard, High on Fire.

Family
Metal
On Spotify
A current genre
What it is
A genre
From
California, early 1990s
Also called
stoner rock, stoner doom
Trackify listeners who play it
3%

About 2,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have stoner metal among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

Stoner Metal artists

The stoner metal artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.

Sources

The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.