Adora Vivos is a progressive doom metal solo project from Rochester, Minnesota. Their 2013 EP "Toward the Empyrean" established a foundation of slow-burning, cerebral doom, and a 2020 split with fellow Minnesota act Amiensus further showcased the project's atmospheric depth.

Advent Varic is a blackened stoner/doom project from Boston, Massachusetts. Their contribution to a 2020 split with Opium Warlock captures the project's vision of fusing black metal's harsh textures with the low-end rumble of stoner doom.

Indiana/New York black metal and doom project named after the green patina of corroded copper. Oxidized heaviness spanning two states.

Black metal and doom metal project of unknown origin. Sacred space built from atmosphere and crushing weight.

Richmond, Virginia doom and gothic metal project. Dark beauty and crushing weight from the former capital of the Confederacy.

Afghan Haze is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Connecticut. With two full-lengths — "Nihilistic Stoner Hymns" and "Sermons of Filth and Disgust" — and two EPs, the band delivers exactly what those titles promise: filthy, weed-soaked doom drenched in nihilistic heaviness.

Baltimore doom metal project. The name evokes Huysmans' decadent novel, channeling literary darkness through Charm City heaviness.

Lexington, Kentucky doom metal project. Entropy and collapse rendered in crushing heaviness from the Bluegrass capital.

Agnosis is a doom metal band from New York City. With two EPs — "Hecate" (2005) and "A Painful Pattern" (2012) — the band plays slow, deliberate doom metal that draws from occult and introspective themes.