Chicago doom metal band formed in 2015 by former members of The Obsessed, carrying forward a lineage that connects them directly to some of the most important names in American doom. Their music is slow, heavy, and steeped in the classic doom tradition that prizes mood and weight over speed.

Portland blackened sludge and doom metal outfit formed in 2014, fusing the corrosive atmosphere of black metal with the slow, crushing heaviness of sludge and doom in a combination that the Pacific Northwest underground has proven particularly fertile ground for cultivating. Their sound is dense, dissonant, and deliberately oppressive.

Hutchinson, Kansas act The Space Between pursue the crushing middle ground between death metal's aggression and doom's suffocating weight, forging death-doom that moves at a glacial, deliberate pace. Formed in 2019, their sound is marked by low tunings and a relentless sense of dread.

Santa Cruz's The Sun Must Die channel death-doom's most oppressive impulses — slow, tar-thick riffs laid over cavernous death metal vocals — into a sound that feels as though the California coastline has been swallowed by darkness. Formed in 2015, the project leans into the nihilistic end of the doom-death spectrum.

Stoner doom institution. 'Age of Winters' put Austin heavy rock on the map.

Chicago's The Unshored weave black metal harshness, doom metal weight, and progressive metal architecture into a cohesive whole since forming in 2015. Their sound is searching and bleak, trading in long-form compositions that move through icy bleakness and crushing low-end in equal measure.

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.