Austin doom/stoner metal. Massive fuzz-drenched riffs.

San Diego's Obsidian Rite began in doom before gravitating toward black metal's harsher cold, and the tension between those two impulses gives their music its distinctive, brooding character. Formed in 2023, they're already building something that feels genuinely ominous.

Houston progressive doom/death metal with powerful clean vocals. Emotionally devastating heaviness.

Monolithic Doom Metal from Dallas.

Seattle's Old Iron drag doom and sludge through the Pacific Northwest rain with the heavy patience of a city that knows how to let grief breathe. Formed in 2014, they've built a sound that's slow, corrosive, and deeply committed to heaviness as atmosphere.

Kingston, New Hampshire's Onera weave melodic doom and progressive ambition into long-form compositions that breathe and shift like weather moving across the White Mountains. Their melodic progressive/doom approach rewards patient listeners willing to sit inside the slow unraveling.

Lynchburg, Virginia's Opium Church came together in 2025 under the banner of Appalachian doom hippies — and true to that self-description, they blend stoner and doom metal with the hazy, ritualistic warmth of the Blue Ridge foothills. Heavy, slow, and thoroughly at peace with taking up space.

Named for a star in the Serpens constellation, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin's Order of Unukalhai weave black metal, doom, and post-metal into cosmic, slow-burning compositions that feel genuinely vast. Their music reaches for something distant and cold, like starlight arriving from the deep past.

Nashville, Tennessee's Origami Flowers started in folk and indie rock before finding their footing in stoner and doom metal, a journey that shows in the melodic sensitivity they bring to heavy riffs. There's something peculiarly Southern about their earthy, unhurried approach to weight.

Denver's Orm dwell in the slow, crushing overlap of sludge, drone, and doom metal, crafting music that moves like magma — deliberate, heavy, and indifferent to urgency. The Mile High altitude seems to have had no effect on their desire to go as low and slow as possible.

Scorching Doom / Black Metal out of Texas.

Named for the ruined city at the heart of Tolkien's Middle-earth, Osgiliath conjure a desolate black/doom sound that mirrors their namesake — crumbling, ancient, and saturated in dread. Active since 1996, their music unfolds like a slow descent into shadow.

From the weathered port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Other Beings conjure suffocating drone-doom and sludge that feels dredged up from the Atlantic floor — slow, monolithic, and relentlessly heavy. Formed in 2012, they operate at the intersection of patience and punishment.

Emerging from New Mexico in 2015, Ot~un~et~ir channel the arid desolation of the high desert into suffocating walls of sludge and doom. Their sound lumbers under the weight of down-tuned riffs and corrosive atmosphere, dragging listeners through slow, deliberate punishment. An unconventional name for an uncompromising approach to heavy music.

From the small city of Portage, Wisconsin, Ov Moros have been cultivating progressive doom metal since 2016 — music that moves slowly and deliberately, building atmosphere through extended compositions and dynamic restraint. The Greek word "moros" evokes fate and doom in both the ancient and metal sense, a fitting name for music this heavy and deliberate. Isolation suits their sound well.