Cincinnati's Debauch has been mining the sepulchral depths of death/doom since 2011, where impossibly slow tempos and cavernous production create a sense of ritualistic despair. Ohio weight pressed into wax.

Brand new out of Chesterton, Indiana, Decades of Grief arrived in 2024 dragging funeral doom's glacial tempos and suffocating weight into the dunes of the southern Lake Michigan shore. Patience is the entry fee — the payoff is obliteration in slow motion.

Madison, Wisconsin's Decarabia inhabits the slow-motion apocalypse of sludge, drone, and doom metal, building suffocating walls of low-end distortion since 2016. A different beast entirely from their name-sharing counterparts — heavier and far slower.

Seattle's Decaying Crypt leans into the death/doom tradition with a murky, sepulchral heaviness, emerging in 2021 from a city that's always supported the heaviest and most atmosphere-drenched corners of metal. Slow, suffocating, and unhurried in the best possible way.

Boston's Decompression marry black metal's icy hostility to doom's oppressive crawl, carving out a bleak, suffocating sound since 2022. The Massachusetts cold seeps into every droning, frost-bitten riff.

Santa Cruz's Deconstruct have been navigating the crushing intersection of doom and death metal since 2012, leveraging the weight of both genres to build slow, suffocating walls of sound. A longtime fixture of the California underground.

Ithaca's Decrement draw from the rich upstate New York heavy music tradition, weaving post-metal's expansive textures together with sludge's grinding heaviness and doom's glacial pace. Since 2018, they've built songs that collapse under their own weight — beautifully.

Born out of Kansas City in 2021, Ded Morose merge the slow burn of doom with classic heavy metal muscle, channeling misery and weight in equal measure.

Los Angeles sludge/doom duo Deep Tomb, formed in 2020, specialize in suffocating, tar-thick riffs that evoke burial — slow, cavernous, and relentlessly bleak.

Chicago stoner/doom outfit Deepspacepilots have been navigating fuzz-heavy, gravity-warped heaviness since 2006, equal parts Midwest grit and cosmic drift.

Denver's Deer Creek have been pulling from the mile-high city's well of sludge, doom, and stoner heaviness since 2006, crafting records that move slow and hit hard.

Columbia, South Carolina's Defeat emerged in 2015 at the bleak crossroads of black metal and funeral doom, weaving glacially slow tempos with icy tremolo passages that conjure desolation without mercy. Their approach leans into the suffocating weight of Funeral Doom Metal, letting compositions breathe into vast, lightless spaces rather than rushing toward resolution.

Portland, Oregon's Defiant Body emerged in 2024 at the heaviest end of sludge and doom, a new entry in a city that has quietly become one of the best homes in the country for slow, crushing metal. Their approach leans into the sludge side of the equation — feedback-laden, emotionally bleak, and physically punishing.

Boston's Deicidal Twilight work in the slow, catastrophic tradition of death/doom — a subgenre that suits New England's long winters and the bleak, gothic weight of the region's cultural history. Formed in 2017, they cultivate an oppressive atmosphere through tempos that drag like granite, layering death metal ferocity beneath the doom's suffocating, slow-rolling darkness.

New Jersey's DejaGravy have been cooking up a thick stew of sludge and doom since 2013. Built on lumbering riffs and a suffocating low-end, the band wallows in the murk between electric funeral doom and the feedback-saturated grime of Southern-influenced sludge.