Moonbreath is a Hammond, Indiana doom metal project formed in 2018, working in the slow, heavy tradition of the genre with a focus on atmosphere and sustained weight. Hammond's industrial character adds a certain grim context to their funeral-paced compositions.

Moonfarmer is a Grand Junction, Colorado sludge-doom project formed in 2024, combining stoner heaviness with sludge's abrasive, tar-thick texture and doom's slow-grinding tempos. Grand Junction's high desert isolation feels right at home in music this massive and unhurried.

A Pennsylvania doom, stoner, and sludge outfit active since 1999, Moons traffic in slow, pulverizing riffs and narcotic haze — occupying the heavy, low-tuned intersection where all three genres bleed together.

Ayer, Massachusetts quartet Moosataur have been crafting psychedelic doom and stoner metal since 2013, layering lysergic haze over slow, crushing riffwork in a style that's as trance-inducing as it is heavy.

One of the longer-running black metal acts in Southern California, Santa Ana's Mordor have maintained their dark vision since 1994 — an impressive run for the Los Angeles area underground. Their name, drawn from Tolkien's realm of shadow, anchors them in the mythological and fantastical tradition of early European black metal.

Warren, Pennsylvania's Morganthus blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal into a slow-burning, riff-heavy sound that has been deepening since 2017. The rural northwestern Pennsylvania setting feeds naturally into the bleak and earthy weight of their compositions.

Orange County, California's Morgion are one of the most respected names in American doom/death metal, crafting deeply melancholic and atmospherically dense music since the early 2000s. Their slow, crushing compositions draw from the European tradition of My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost while maintaining a distinctly West Coast weight.

Scranton, Pennsylvania's Morkander have been fusing black and doom metal since 2014, generating slow-building, oppressive heaviness from the industrial decay of a northeastern city that lends itself naturally to bleak, heavy music.

Boston's Morne have been one of the most distinctive voices in American post-metal and sludge since 2009, fusing crushing Neurosis-influenced heaviness with a somber, searching emotionalism that sets them apart from peers in the genre.