Portland's Skulldozer emerged in 2015, bringing the Pacific Northwest's love of fuzz and fog to stoner-doom — slow and massive in the way that Oregon's heaviest acts tend to be, built on riffs that move like heavy machinery.

Albuquerque's Skulldron have been working the stoner-doom corridor since 2012, with the high desert altitude and baking New Mexico heat lending their sound a suitably hazy, heavy quality — fuzzed-out riffs stretched over long, hypnotic structures.

Sacramento's Sky Pig have been combining stoner, sludge, and doom metal since 2018, trafficking in slow-grinding riffs soaked in fuzz and feedback that nod equally to Electric Wizard and Saint Vitus. The band occupies the fertile Central Valley heavy underground, where volume is treated as a virtue unto itself.

Los Angeles's Skyeater formed in 2016 weaving black metal's icy dissonance together with doom metal's crawling tempos into a style they describe as a dirge — slow, bleak, and relentlessly oppressive. The band channels the kind of urban dread that tends to haunt Southern California's underground experimental metal scene.

Slag are a Florence, Kentucky black/doom metal project formed in 2024, pairing the glacial weight of doom with the cold, dissonant atmosphere of black metal for a sound that is simultaneously crushing and bleak. Their approach draws on the slower, more desolate end of both traditions.

Williamsburg, Virginia's Slaughter Stone meld death and doom into something suffocating and slow-burning, leaning into the cavernous heaviness that defines the death-doom hybrid at its most punishing. Formed in 2018, they mine the same oppressive sonic territory as the genre's European forebears but with a distinctly American bleakness.

Rockford, Illinois's Slave Cylinder combine sludge metal's filth and doom metal's glacial weight into something that feels built for the post-industrial grimness of their Midwest home since 2015. Their Bandcamp handle ties their identity firmly to their Illinois roots.

Seattle's Slave Traitor merge heavy metal's melodic muscle with doom's oppressive tempos, producing a sound that befits the Pacific Northwest's overcast, introspective atmosphere. Active since 2012, they bring traditional doom sensibilities to a city better known for grunge and post-metal.

Boston death/doom band active since 2010, dragging the sepulchral weight of funeral doom into rougher, death metal-infused territory. Their sound channels the grim New England atmosphere into slow, crushing riffs and morbid, downtuned heaviness.