A Little Rock, Arkansas act born in 2021, Shitfire fuse the crawling weight of doom with sludge's nasty low-end aggression, channeling the swampy heaviness of the mid-South into dense, slow-burning walls of distortion.

Named after H.P. Lovecraft's tentacled aberrations, Albuquerque's Shoggoth have been summoning Lovecraftian doom and stoner metal since 2019, combining the high desert's psychedelic atmosphere with slow, cosmic heaviness well-suited to New Mexico's otherworldly landscape.

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Kalamazoo, Michigan's Shoto navigate the bleak terrain between experimental sludge and doom, crafting slow, oppressive soundscapes that push beyond genre convention into genuinely unsettling sonic territory since forming in 2019.

Portland, Oregon's Shrine of the Serpent have been crafting funeral-paced doom/death metal since 2015, their suffocating sound built on glacial tempos, cavernous production, and an atmosphere of irreversible dread that defines the Pacific Northwest's heaviest underground currents.

San Francisco's Shrinebuilder are a supergroup formed in 2009 from members of Sleep, Neurosis, The Melvins, and Scott Kelly's solo projects, combining stoner and doom metal traditions into monolithic, lysergic compositions that draw from the full weight of their members' combined legacies.

Chicago doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2023, channeling the heavy, haze-drenched weight of slow-grinding riffs and oppressive atmosphere. A young band from the Midwest already staking out territory in the ritualistic end of the doom spectrum.

Miami sludge/doom duo formed in 2009, known for massive down-tuned riffs layered with swamp-thick atmosphere and the raw, swaggering physicality native to the Florida underground. They carry a distinctive Southern weight filtered through the caustic traditions of sludge.

Atmospheric doom/death metal band from Sandown, New Hampshire, active since 2004 and rooted in slow, grief-laden compositions that fuse the melodic melancholy of doom with death metal's darker harmonic palette. One of the longer-running acts in the regional underground.