A Saint Paul project born in 2025, Toward Eternity blend heavy, gothic, and doom metal into a brooding, melodically rich sound, drawing equally from 90s gothic rock atmosphere and traditional doom's slow, crushing weight.

St. Augustine, Florida's Tower deal in the slow and crushing intersection of doom and sludge metal, leaning into feedback-drenched heaviness and plodding tempos that reward patient listening with a suffocating sense of weight.

California's Towering, active since 2016, occupy the slow, suffocating space where drone, doom, and sludge converge, building massive walls of distortion and deliberate, glacial pacing into music that functions more as a physical experience than a conventional listen.

Nestled in the mountains of Franconia, New Hampshire, Tractorass have been hauling stoner doom's slow, bludgeoning weight since 2004, blending fuzz-soaked riffs with the lethargic, oppressive atmosphere the genre does best.

Portland's Tragedy are one of the more distinctive voices in heavy music, weaving crust punk's anarchic urgency together with doom and sludge metal's oppressive weight to create something that feels both furious and crushing.

Frederick, Maryland's Trail of Wreckage push doom metal into experimental territory since forming in 2020, building on the genre's foundational heaviness while introducing unconventional textures and structures.

Columbus, Ohio's Traitors Return to Earth have been sinking deep into stoner-sludge-doom's tar pit heaviness since 2011, layering fuzz and feedback over glacial tempos and a persistent sense of weighted despair.

Orlando's Tranquilizer fuse doom and stoner metal into a heavy, lethargic wall of sound — slow-churning riffs, fuzz-drenched tones, and the kind of suffocating groove that the Florida heat demands.

Little Rock, Arkansas's Tranquilo lean deep into the psychedelic end of stoner/doom, weaving hazy, slow-burning riff cycles with a trippy, meditative quality that sets them apart from heavier fare in the mid-South.