A recently formed US doom/death outfit, Tortured Remains blend the dragging tempos and mournful weight of doom metal with the down-tuned brutality of death metal, working in the tradition of the genre's most sepulchral expressions.

Bloomington, Indiana's Torturess weave together doom, sludge, and traditional heavy metal into a dense, riff-forward sound that recalls the crushing weight of Electric Wizard alongside the groove-driven swagger of '70s-influenced hard rock.

Washington State's Torvus began in the black/doom metal tradition before pivoting toward gothic metal in their later work, tracing a path from bleak atmospheric extremity to darker, melodic emotional textures.

Salem, Oregon's Total Darkness sink into the murk of death/doom metal, dragging riffs through oppressive tempos and graveyard atmospheres that suit the Pacific Northwest's brooding climate.

San Francisco's Totem approach doom metal through a psychedelic lens, layering hazy, reverb-soaked atmospheres over glacially slow riff progressions in a style that reflects the Bay Area's history of mind-expanding heavy music.

A Saint Paul project born in 2025, Toward Eternity blend heavy, gothic, and doom metal into a brooding, melodically rich sound, drawing equally from 90s gothic rock atmosphere and traditional doom's slow, crushing weight.

St. Augustine, Florida's Tower deal in the slow and crushing intersection of doom and sludge metal, leaning into feedback-drenched heaviness and plodding tempos that reward patient listening with a suffocating sense of weight.

California's Towering, active since 2016, occupy the slow, suffocating space where drone, doom, and sludge converge, building massive walls of distortion and deliberate, glacial pacing into music that functions more as a physical experience than a conventional listen.

Nestled in the mountains of Franconia, New Hampshire, Tractorass have been hauling stoner doom's slow, bludgeoning weight since 2004, blending fuzz-soaked riffs with the lethargic, oppressive atmosphere the genre does best.