Lawrence, Kansas band F29 have been pulling down-tuned doom grooves since 2012, stacking the slow, crushing weight of doom metal against heavier groove-driven rhythms that hit like a freight train.

A recent arrival from Salt Lake City, Fabler has been crafting heavy, earth-bound doom and stoner metal since 2023 — slow riffs steeped in desert haze that reward patient listeners.

Phoenix's Face the Flames lean into the slow and the heavy, crafting stoner-doom that trades the desert city's relentless heat into fuzz-soaked riffs and brooding, patient tempos since 2017.

Fitchburg, Massachusetts's Faces of Bayon have been steeped in pure doom metal since 2011, named after the ancient Khmer temple and carrying that same sense of monolithic, time-worn weight in every riff.

Chicago's Faces of the Bog have been constructing psychedelic, progressive sludge-doom since 2016, blending the Windy City's experimental instincts with the heavy emotional weight of doom and sludge.

Out of Morgantown, West Virginia, Fading Embers arrived in 2023 with the slow, mountainous heaviness that doom metal demands — a young band in a state whose industrial rust and Appalachian weight seem tailor-made for the genre.

Evansville, Indiana's Faerie Ring has been blending doom and stoner metal since 2018, bringing heavy, psych-laced riffs and an occult-folk sensibility to a part of the Midwest not always associated with the heavier end of the spectrum.

Los Angeles's Faetooth occupies the intersection of doom, sludge, and post-metal — a trio of subgenres that reward patience and reward volume — building their layered, emotionally heavy sound since forming in 2019.

Ann Arbor's Fair Game started as a hard rock and heavy metal act before evolving toward psychedelic doom metal — a trajectory that reflects both the band's growth since 2018 and the fertile experimental energy of that Michigan college town.

Metairie, Louisiana's Fall from Grace leans into stoner and doom metal with the low-end density and swampy atmosphere that the Gulf South does better than most, a band formed in 2018 in the shadow of New Orleans.

A doom/death outfit from Tempe, Arizona, Fall of Empyrean emerged in 2020 with a sound built on suffocating low-end weight and cavernous atmosphere. They drag the listener through extended passages of grief-laden riffs where doom's glacial crawl meets death metal's crushing finality.

Chicago's Fallen Empire debuted in 2024, pursuing melodic death metal's marriage of technical aggression and muscular melody within one of America's richest metal cities. Their Bandcamp handle 'newfallenempire' signals a deliberate fresh start, distinguishing them from the genre's established names.

Out of Patchogue, New York, False Gods deal in the slow and heavy — doom and sludge metal that crawls forward with deliberate menace. Formed in 2016, they build tension through weight and repetition rather than speed.

Buffalo's Fane works in the overlapping territory of doom and sludge metal, where slow riffs carry enormous weight and the atmosphere is thick enough to feel physical. Since 2017, they've been one of upstate New York's heavier propositions.

New Jersey's FangTooth has been a death metal presence since 2011, doing the work without fuss or genre-blending complications. The name promises something with bite, and the band delivers accordingly.