Massive Doom Metal out of Texas.

Edwardsville, Illinois death-thrashers Unburied have been plowing through the American underground since 2006, fusing the morbid heaviness of old-school death metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash. No-frills and consistently bruising.

Omaha, Nebraska's Undying Sorrow specialize in funeral doom metal — the genre's most extreme expression of grief and slowness — cultivating an atmosphere of crushing, funereal despair since 2021. For listeners who want their metal to feel like an actual eulogy.

Rochester, New York's Unholy Semen have been combining black metal hostility with doom metal's dragging weight since 2005, building a sound that's as ugly as the name implies. Two decades in the underground have only made their contempt more refined.

Portland, Oregon's Urchin have been at it since 2001, fusing doom metal's crushing density with post-metal's more expansive, atmospheric tendencies over more than two decades. One of the longer-running acts in the Pacific Northwest heavy underground, they bring weathered depth to every release.

Richmond, Virginia's Urisk are among the more recent additions to their city's fertile doom and stoner metal scene, formed in 2024. Drawing on the Southern-inflected stoner doom tradition, they bring Virginia's blue-collar heaviness to a genre well-suited to it.