Type O Negative were a Brooklyn, New York gothic and doom metal band led by the late Peter Steele, renowned for their glacially slow tempos, deep bass-driven sound, and brooding romanticism across landmark albums like Bloody Kisses and October Rust.

Tyranonaut is a doom metal band from Rochester, New York, formed in 2017, cultivating the slow, crushing heaviness and introspective atmosphere that define the doom metal genre.

Tzarpit is a stoner/doom metal band from Salem, Massachusetts, formed in 2021, conjuring slow, heavy riffs and hazy atmospheres from one of New England's oldest and most storied cities.

Tzompantli is a death/doom metal band from Pomona, California, formed in 2012, drawing on Mesoamerican imagery and history to create crushingly heavy music that stands apart from the genre's more conventional touchstones.

Massive Doom Metal out of Texas.

Edwardsville, Illinois death-thrashers Unburied have been plowing through the American underground since 2006, fusing the morbid heaviness of old-school death metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash. No-frills and consistently bruising.

Omaha, Nebraska's Undying Sorrow specialize in funeral doom metal — the genre's most extreme expression of grief and slowness — cultivating an atmosphere of crushing, funereal despair since 2021. For listeners who want their metal to feel like an actual eulogy.

Unearthly Trance formed in Long Island, New York in 2000 as a trio — vocalist and guitarist Ryan Lipynsky, bassist Jay Newman, and drummer Darren Verni — producing sludge and doom metal with a blackened, psychedelic undercurrent. The band released material on Southern Lord, Rise Above, and Relapse Records across a career that included albums such as The Trident (2006) and Stalking the Ghost (2017). They shared stages with Electric Wizard, Sunn O))), and Morbid Angel, situating them at the intersection of doom and extreme metal communities.

Rochester, New York's Unholy Semen have been combining black metal hostility with doom metal's dragging weight since 2005, building a sound that's as ugly as the name implies. Two decades in the underground have only made their contempt more refined.