San Francisco's Tomes have been threading doom metal's crush through a thrash and hardcore framework since 2014, producing music that carries Bay Area aggression in its bones while slowing things down enough to feel genuinely oppressive.

Toledo, Ohio doom metal act Tomorrow arrived in 2025, entering a storied Midwestern heavy music tradition with a sound that leans into slow tempos, heavy riffing, and the genre's characteristic sense of weight and inevitability.

Phoenix, Arizona's Torment of Gloom, formed in 2020, combines doom, sludge, and post-metal into slow-burning, heavy-atmosphered soundscapes. The oppressive desert heat of their city seems to seep into their thick, suffocating sonic palette.

Hamilton, Ohio funeral doom outfit Torture Wheel have been grinding out some of the genre's most punishing slow-motion heaviness since 2005, favoring glacial tempos and suffocating atmospheres that put them squarely in the tradition of the genre's bleakest practitioners.

A recently formed US doom/death outfit, Tortured Remains blend the dragging tempos and mournful weight of doom metal with the down-tuned brutality of death metal, working in the tradition of the genre's most sepulchral expressions.

Bloomington, Indiana's Torturess weave together doom, sludge, and traditional heavy metal into a dense, riff-forward sound that recalls the crushing weight of Electric Wizard alongside the groove-driven swagger of '70s-influenced hard rock.

Washington State's Torvus began in the black/doom metal tradition before pivoting toward gothic metal in their later work, tracing a path from bleak atmospheric extremity to darker, melodic emotional textures.

Salem, Oregon's Total Darkness sink into the murk of death/doom metal, dragging riffs through oppressive tempos and graveyard atmospheres that suit the Pacific Northwest's brooding climate.

San Francisco's Totem approach doom metal through a psychedelic lens, layering hazy, reverb-soaked atmospheres over glacially slow riff progressions in a style that reflects the Bay Area's history of mind-expanding heavy music.