Formed in Nixa, Missouri in 2019, The Valley of Hinnom take their name from the biblical site of sacrifice and channel that gravitas into doom/death metal that is both deliberate and suffocating. Their music moves with funeral weight, leaning into dread rather than aggression.

Austin power trio blending knotty prog, punk, and bluesy doom rock.

Out of Midland, Michigan, The Wizard of Bong Mountain lean into every expectation their name sets — slow, fuzzy stoner doom built for maximum low-end punishment, the kind of riff-worship that makes a virtue of repetition and deliberate, crushing tempo.

Named after the cartilage at the base of the sternum, Denver's The Xiphoid Process have been crafting death/doom metal since 2010, pairing the crushing slow churn of doom with the morbid heaviness of death metal. Their Colorado roots lend a desolate, high-altitude atmosphere to their glacially paced material.

Seattle's Theist have been conjuring a layered, oppressive amalgam of black metal, sludge, and doom since 2015 — a combination that fits naturally in the Pacific Northwest's tradition of slow, heavy, and atmosphere-saturated extreme music. Their sound buries raw black metal hostility under sludge's tar-thick weight and doom's relentless drag.

They Watch Us from the Moon is a stoner/doom metal band from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2019, rolling out heavy, fuzz-soaked riffs beneath a cosmic, wide-open-sky atmosphere that feels at home in the flat Kansas landscape. Their sound evokes both earthbound heaviness and a fixation on vast, unknowable distances.

A psychedelic doom outfit from the small Wisconsin town of Hatley, Third Eye Rider pursue the hazy crossroads where stoner riffing and slow, crushing doom converge. Their sound leans into extended, fog-thick arrangements that reward patience over speed.

Hailing from Pampa, Texas — a remote stretch of the Panhandle — This Noose... My Neck... practice funeral doom of the most desolate variety, stretching grief and isolation into glacially slow compositions that feel as vast as the surrounding plains.

Named after cinema's most infamous Texan, Ocala, Florida's Thomas Hewitt deal in sludge and doom metal — murky, down-tuned, and heavy enough to flatten furniture, with the rural dread their namesake implies.

A Phoenix, Arizona death/doom act also formed in 2023, Thorn blend the suffocating weight of funeral-adjacent doom with death metal's aggression, conjuring an atmosphere as unforgiving as the desert heat.

Denver's Thorns of Acanthus fuse doom's crawling heaviness with death metal's visceral aggression, a pairing the Colorado scene has proven well-suited to host. Formed in 2014, the band cultivates a suffocating atmosphere in which funeral-paced riffs give way to more violent bursts of death metal ferocity.

Cincinnati's Thorns of the Carrion have been building their atmospheric gothic doom/death sound since 2000, blending the mournful grandeur of gothic metal with death metal weight and doom's measured pace. The long-running Ohio act occupies a space where beauty and decay intertwine across decades of output.

Bloomington, Indiana's Thorr-Axe play a riff-worshipping brand of stoner doom that sits comfortably in the lineage of Electric Wizard and Saint Vitus while carrying its own Midwestern heft. Formed in 2010, the band leans into fuzz-thick guitar tone and hypnotic, plodding tempos that invite the listener to lose themselves in the low end.

Baton Rouge's Thou are one of the defining names in American sludge and drone-doom, known for prolific output, uncompromising heaviness, and a DIY ethos rooted in the South's noise and punk traditions since their 2007 formation. Their music moves at a suffocating crawl, layering feedback, anguish, and political fury into some of the most crushing slow-burn metal of the past two decades.

Baltimore's Thought Eater formed in 2018 and plays the kind of slow, oppressive doom/sludge metal that suits the city's gritty industrial character. Rooted in the mid-Atlantic heavy underground, they favor churning, feedback-soaked heaviness over speed or flash.