Tampa, Florida doom metal project. The name captures doom metal's essential preoccupation — the slow extinguishing of consciousness — from the city that knows extreme music best.

A Pale Horse Named Death is a doom and gothic metal band from New York City. The project draws from the same bleak, atmospheric well as Type O Negative and Life of Agony, with their 2019 full-length "When The World Becomes Undone" delivering thirteen tracks of crushing, melancholic heaviness.

Georgia doom metal project. The name paints an apocalyptic ocean of bone — mass death rendered as geography, fitting for the genre's fixation on oblivion.

Galesburg, Illinois doom metal project. The name promises visions past the horizon from the Prairie State's heartland.

Buffalo, New York doom metal project. Solo artist carrying Western New York's heavy music tradition forward.

Marshalltown, Iowa death/doom project — distinct from the Rochester band of the same name. Midwestern isolation fueling heavy, despairing extremity.

Los Angeles death/doom project — distinct from the Chicago act. West Coast interpretation of the same absence-themed name.

Abstracter is a blackened crust, sludge, and doom metal band from Oakland, California. Across six releases from 2012 to 2021, the band has refined a devastating sound that collapses d-beat urgency into walls of blackened sludge, with the 2015 EP "Wound Empire" marking a high point of crushing atmospheric extremity.

Colossal Blackened Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.

Abyss is a thrash and death metal band from McAllen, Texas. Operating from the Rio Grande Valley, the band contributes to the South Texas extreme metal underground.

Acedia is a melodic death metal band from St. Louis, Missouri. Their catalog includes the 2017 full-length "Speculum Humanae Salvationis" and 2020 EP "Selfhatred.Addiction," blending melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies with introspective lyrical themes.

Acid Crypt is a doom metal band from Queens, New York City. Their sound draws from the crushing, riff-heavy tradition of doom, filtered through the grit of the NYC underground.

Acid Dream is a sludge, stoner, and doom metal band from Mantisque, Michigan. With three releases to their name, the band layers fuzzed-out riffs over a swampy foundation of low-tuned heaviness.

Parishville, New York doom metal project named after the genus of sturgeon fish. Prehistoric heaviness from the remote Adirondack foothills.

Los Angeles death metal project. The name's hostility channels LA's darker undercurrents through extreme music.