Towering Doom / Stoner Metal / Rock out of Texas.

Atlanta's Mirthless fuse progressive death metal architecture with deathcore muscle, bringing technical song construction and shifting dynamics to a brutally heavy foundation that has made them one of Georgia's more compositionally ambitious extreme acts since 2017.

New York's Misanthropæ operate in the volatile space between black metal's frost-bitten fury and grindcore's demolition-speed blasting, delivering a confrontational blackened grindcore attack of crushing brevity and abrasive noise since forming in 2021.

Portland, Maine's Misery are practitioners of the most desolate strain of funeral doom, stretching compositions to glacial lengths and burying melody beneath layers of crushing weight, operating at the far, airless margins of the genre since 2003.

Knoxville, Tennessee's Misery Machine blend the mournful melody of doom metal with the heaviness of death metal in a melodic doom/death style that has earned them a dedicated following in the Appalachian region's underground since their 2022 formation.

New York's MKDelta blend hardcore sludge and doom into a punishing, slow-grinding sound that leans on suffocating riffs and bleak atmosphere. Formed in 2022, the band describes their music as something that will make you want to quit your job — a fair warning for the faint-hearted.

Columbia, South Carolina's MNRVA traffic in the overlapping territories of doom, stoner, and sludge metal, building slow-burning riff structures with a hazy, sun-baked weight. Founded in 2023, the band carries on the Southern tradition of heaviness as a physical, almost geological force.

A doom and sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon, Moan channel the Pacific Northwest's grey skies and isolation into suffocating, slow-motion heaviness. Active since 2020, they operate in the low-and-slow register where riffs drag like sediment and atmosphere is as important as volume.

Baltimore's Mobula have been navigating the psychedelic end of sludge and doom since 2016, layering heavy riffs with acid-washed, hallucinatory textures that set them apart from the rawer side of their genre. Their sound draws as much from cosmic rock as from the Chesapeake's notoriously thick heavy underground.