Named after the mythical Lovecraftian city of the gods, Kadath are a funeral doom outfit from Ephrata, Pennsylvania, conjuring glacially slow, suffocating heaviness since 2018. Their music wallows in sorrow and enormity, built for listeners who find comfort in the abyss.

Stoner/doom duo Kalgon arrived out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2024, planting themselves in a city long synonymous with heavy, riff-driven underground music. Their sound is thick and slow-moving, built on the fuzz-soaked foundations that have made Asheville a haven for this kind of music.

Denver's Kamru brew thick stoner/doom metal in the tradition of the Colorado high country, where the altitude seems to slow everything down to the right speed. Formed in 2022, they've been carving out a place in a city with a rich legacy of heavy, riff-forward underground music.

From the small rural community of Bevent, Wisconsin, Karma Bloody Karma work the intersection of sludge, doom, and post-metal — music that sounds as weathered and vast as the Wisconsin interior since their 2023 formation. Heavy, slow, and emotionally unsparing.

Keen of the Crow occupy the mournful territory where doom metal and death metal converge, a Los Angeles act formed in 2020 with a sound steeped in crushing grief and slow-burning heaviness.

Arvada, Colorado's Ketch drag doom and sludge together into something slow, filthy, and massive — formed in 2022, they deliver the kind of crushing riff-worship that makes the floor shake and the room feel smaller.

San Jose, California's Kevel have been in the heavy fuzz game since 2014, pairing stoner rock's psychedelic warmth with doom metal's glacial pace for a sound that's hazy, heavy, and fully hypnotic.

New York's Khanate are one of extreme music's most uncompromising acts — their drone/doom sound is not so much music as an endurance test, sculpting suffocating noise and anguished vocals into harrowing monuments since 2001.

Denver's Khemmis blend crushing doom with soaring melodic leads and harmonized vocals, carving out a sound that feels both ancient and emotionally immediate. Since forming in 2015, they've become one of the most celebrated doom acts in the American underground.

Fresh out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2025, Killiad brew sludge, stoner, and doom into something slow-boiled and heavy as wet earth. Asheville's fertile heavy underground provides the perfect conditions for this kind of deliberate, bone-deep metal.

Sarver, Pennsylvania's King of Undeath deal in doom metal with a name that telegraphs the aesthetic — slow, death-soaked, and funereal in the most satisfying way. A 2022 project that leans hard into the genre's darkest corners.

Drawing equally from doom and traditional heavy metal, Los Angeles' King Raven have been crafting dark, riff-driven songs since 2014. Their sound carries a gothic weight without fully surrendering to doom's slowest tempos.

The solo project of Kirk Windstein — guitarist and vocalist known for his work in Crowbar and Down — this New Orleans doom vehicle launched in 2020 as a deeply personal, dirge-laden outlet. Windstein's signature tone and Southern Gothic heaviness are unmistakable here, steeped in the grief and grit that define NOLA metal.

Tacoma's Knuckle Dragger has been dragging sludge and doom through the South Sound since 2016. Fitting for a city with a gritty, blue-collar identity, their music is punishingly slow, low-tuned, and unapologetically heavy in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest's sludge lineage.

Scorching Black Metal (early); Melodic Post-Black Metal / Shoegaze (mid); Black / Death / Doom Metal (later) from Keller.