'Big Jim' Shively is a one-man doom and psychedelic rock project from Nashville, Tennessee. Active since the early 1990s under the CRANK moniker, the project has amassed a sprawling catalog of recordings spanning cassette-era demos to full-lengths, blending heavy doom riffs with lysergic psychedelic wandering across more than two decades of output.

(Ohlm) is a progressive doom metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. Since their 2013 debut EP "The Synaptic Dissent," the band has built a catalog of five releases that push doom metal into expansive, cerebral territory, culminating in their 2024 EP "the Division."

(waning) is a doom and post-metal band from Sacramento, California, active since 2007 with a catalog spanning eight releases. From the sparse beginnings of their 2007 self-titled EP through the expansive atmospherics of 2017's full-length "Still Hours," the band has steadily refined a sound rooted in glacial heaviness and brooding emotional weight. Their work occupies the space where crushing doom riffs dissolve into shimmering post-metal passages.

...Under a Full Moon is a prolific doom metal project originally from Midland, Michigan, later relocating to North Carolina, with an enormous output since 2017. Across eleven releases — including four full-lengths and multiple EPs — the project has built a sprawling catalog of oppressive, ritualistic doom metal. The sheer volume and pace of output points to a singularly driven vision of unrelenting heaviness.

1000 Foot Bong is a doom metal band from Portland, Oregon, who announced themselves in 2023 with the four-track EP "Pre Roll." With song titles like "Munchies," "Grower," and "Resin Demon," the band wears their stoner-doom influences proudly and without pretense. The EP delivers slow, heavy riffs in the grand tradition of Pacific Northwest doom.

Escondido, California doom metal project named after a date — perhaps apocalyptic, perhaps personal. San Diego North County heaviness anchored to a specific moment in time.