Denver death-doom and sludge metal act formed in 2022, drawing on the Mile High underground's appetite for punishment. Vitrify layers death metal's crushing weight with doom's suffocating tempos and sludge's corrosive texture, their name evoking a transformation into something rigid and opaque — hardened under extreme pressure.

Minneapolis's Void Rot have developed a strong reputation in the death/doom underground since forming in 2018, specializing in slow, cavernous compositions where death metal's grotesque density meets doom metal's inexorable pacing. The Twin Cities metal scene is deeper and more serious than outsiders often realize, and Void Rot are among its more accomplished exports — praised by underground death metal listeners for the suffocating atmosphere and deliberate craft of their recordings. They exemplify what death/doom can do when executed with patience and conviction.

Chicago's Voimaton — the Finnish word for "powerless" or "exhausted" — have been dragging the death/doom template through Midwestern gloom since 2019, their name telegraphing exactly the emotional terrain they work. The death metal elements provide structural heaviness while the doom underpinning slows everything to a dirge-like crawl, creating music that feels genuinely burdened. In a city with a strong experimental metal history, they occupy the darker end of its underground with conviction.