Cullman, Alabama's Hog Mountin drag sludge and doom through the Southern dirt, conjuring slow, oppressive riffs that feel pulled from the red clay itself. Active since 2013, they embody the bleary, low-end heaviness of the American South.

Out of Norwich, Connecticut, Holding On to Nothing has been mining the grief-soaked terrain where doom metal meets hard rock since 2016. Their music leans into the weight of loss without surrendering the riff.

Vicious Groove / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.

Toledo, Ohio's Hope Hole emerged in 2021 playing suffocating doom metal that sounds exactly as bleak as the name implies. Slow, heavy, and without consolation — crawling forward at the pace of deep grief.

Hickory, North Carolina doom metal outfit Hour of 13 formed in 2003 primarily as the creative project of multi-instrumentalist Chad Davis, with vocalist Phil Swanson contributing to the bulk of their recorded output. Their 2007 self-titled debut on Shadow Kingdom Records was followed by The Ritualist (2010) and 333, both of which reinforced the band's status as a respected act within traditional doom and occult heavy metal circles. Their sound draws from the same late-1970s and early-1980s roots as Pentagram and Black Sabbath without relying on pastiche.

Madison, Wisconsin's House of Lud have been stacking stoner and doom metal in equal measure since 2018, producing riffs that settle in like weather — slow-moving, overcast, and unavoidable. Their tone carries genuine weight.

Salt Lake City's Hyde Park blend stoner, sludge, and doom into something ponderous and psychedelic since 2021, the high-altitude desert setting lending their sound an arid, expansive quality. Fuzz-drenched and unhurried.

Fresno's Hymns to the Stone move at the pace of sediment, layering stoner fuzz, sludge grime, and doom weight into slow-burning rituals of sound. Since 2014, they've treated heaviness as a meditative practice rather than a competition.

Named for one of World War II's most brutal and forgotten campaigns, Fort Worth's Hürtgen Forest channel that same grinding attrition through sludge-drenched doom metal. Since 2016, they've built a sound as punishing and relentless as the battlefield that inspired them.