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Named for the terrifying owl-witch of Mexican folklore, Lechuza channel that mythological dread into raw black metal that is deliberately abrasive and relentlessly malevolent.
Salem, Oregon's Leech have evolved from stripped-down black metal roots into a multi-genre hybrid drawing on folk and doom — a long-running project reflecting the Pacific Northwest's pagan sensibilities.
Out of Hopewell Junction, Leprosy mash crossover thrash's speed and aggression with creeping doom tempos, carving out a peculiar niche in the Hudson Valley underground since 2021.
Minnesota's Let It Breathe lace stoner rock's fuzz-drenched groove with genuine doom heaviness, a Mankato outfit that sounds like a blizzard rolling in off the prairie — slow, thick, and inevitable.
Richmond, Virginia's Letcher have been hauling stoner and doom metal out of the city's fertile heavy underground since 2006, their sound as weathered and slow-burning as the James River at dusk.
Named for a toxic lichen, Santa Cruz's Letharia weave atmospheric black metal and slow-burning doom into something as coastal and creeping as Pacific fog rolling over the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Chicago's Lijde move through cavernous drone and doom with an ambient patience, stretching grief into slow-burning, meditative walls of sound since 2017.
Risen from the ashes of Soul Inquisition. Active since 2000, making them one of Houston's longest-running doom acts.
Fresh out of Prineville, Oregon, Lord Doomitron deliver high-desert doom and stoner metal built for long drives through nowhere, thick with fuzz and slow-motion menace.
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