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Aether (2021)
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Swaumphth is a black, thrash, and doom metal project from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, formed in 2025, exploring a primitive and murky convergence of those traditions.
Critically acclaimed stoner doom from Austin.
Sweet Cicada is a doom and stoner metal band from Lewisburg, West Virginia, active since 2014, drawing on the Appalachian landscape for a heavy, psychedelic sound rooted in vintage fuzz and slow tempos.
Sweetland is a psychedelic doom metal and grunge-influenced project from Mankato, Minnesota, formed in 2025, combining slow, heavy riffs with hazy, druggy atmosphere.
Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.
Albuquerque, New Mexico's Sword Horse have played sludge and doom metal since 2018, incorporating noise elements into their heavy, slow-churning sound shaped by the high desert Southwest.
Upper Darby, Pennsylvania act formed in 2012 that began in gothic rock and metal before shifting toward a heavier combination of gothic, doom, and death metal, balancing atmospheric gloom with crushing low-register weight.
Portland, Oregon doom/death metal band formed in 2013, channeling the slow, oppressive weight of death-doom in a Pacific Northwest scene better known for its black metal output.
Death/doom metal band from Mount Prospect, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the suffocating combination of cavernous death metal heaviness and doom metal's funeral pace that defines the death-doom subgenre.
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