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Daytona Beach heavy metal outfit B.T. Saints has been active since 2016, drawing on Florida's deep tradition of hard-hitting metal to deliver a straightforward and unapologetically earnest take on the genre.
New Brunswick, New Jersey sludge and doom metal band active since 1993, building a deep catalog that includes Future Slum, Whiskey and Arm Wrestling, and a live set recorded at Roadburn 2017.
Brooklyn psychedelic doom and stoner metal band formed in 2010, issuing the Demonstration EP and the Black Blizzard single — their hazy, slow-burning approach sits at the intersection of doom and psychedelic rock.
Kentucky doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2016, blending the slow crush of doom with fuzz-heavy stoner rock grooves across an eclectic catalog.
Fort Wayne, Indiana sludge and doom outfit channeling misanthropy, crime, and despair into crushingly heavy riffs, building a relentlessly bleak sonic portrait since 2017.
New Jersey doom and death metal band combining the suffocating weight of funeral doom with death metal's aggression, formed in 2023.
Fort Worth sludge and doom act whose slow-motion heaviness landed somewhere between Southern doom and noise rock before the band dissolved.
Manistique, Michigan doom and stoner metal band that released music through Supernaut Records before eventually changing their name and continuing under a different identity.
Black/doom metal band from Steubenville, Ohio, active since 2004 and named after the one-eyed king of the Fomorians in Irish mythology.
A sludge/doom metal outfit from New Orleans, Louisiana formed in 2017, drawing on the city's rich tradition of slow, crushing heavy music.
A Florida black/death metal act formed in 2017, contributing the track Metal of Death to the 2018 Tribute to Beherit compilation while pursuing aggressively dark occult and transgressive themes.
An Alabama heavy/doom/sludge metal outfit from the small town of Warrior, Barbarian Funeral surfaced in 2024 with a compilation track on Weedian's regional showcase Trip to Mississippi & Alabama.
Hailing from Everett, Washington, Barbarian Wasteland trades in the slow, haze-soaked intersection of doom and stoner metal, carving out a groove-oriented sound since 2019.
Fargo, North Dakota's Barnaby Jones deal in a blend of stoner, doom, and heavy metal, carrying on the mid-tempo, riff-heavy tradition of the genre from the Northern Plains underground since 2016.
Santa Rosa, California's Barren Altar combine black and doom metal with lyrical themes of anti-theological liturgy and apocalyptic death worship, operating since 2013 as a fixture of Northern California's underground extreme metal scene.
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