Out of Norwich, Connecticut, Holding On to Nothing has been mining the grief-soaked terrain where doom metal meets hard rock since 2016. Their music leans into the weight of loss without surrendering the riff.

Vicious Groove / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.

Toledo, Ohio's Hope Hole emerged in 2021 playing suffocating doom metal that sounds exactly as bleak as the name implies. Slow, heavy, and without consolation — crawling forward at the pace of deep grief.

Madison, Wisconsin's House of Lud have been stacking stoner and doom metal in equal measure since 2018, producing riffs that settle in like weather — slow-moving, overcast, and unavoidable. Their tone carries genuine weight.

Salt Lake City's Hyde Park blend stoner, sludge, and doom into something ponderous and psychedelic since 2021, the high-altitude desert setting lending their sound an arid, expansive quality. Fuzz-drenched and unhurried.

Fresno's Hymns to the Stone move at the pace of sediment, layering stoner fuzz, sludge grime, and doom weight into slow-burning rituals of sound. Since 2014, they've treated heaviness as a meditative practice rather than a competition.

Named for one of World War II's most brutal and forgotten campaigns, Fort Worth's Hürtgen Forest channel that same grinding attrition through sludge-drenched doom metal. Since 2016, they've built a sound as punishing and relentless as the battlefield that inspired them.

Boston's prolific stoner/doom shapeshifters have been churning out hazy, low-slung riff workouts since 2007, their psychedelic tendencies pulling the heavy blues toward realms both cosmic and oppressively earthbound.

Oklahoma City's atmospheric sludge/funeral doom practitioners have been building slow, suffocating cathedrals of sound since 2014 — oppressively heavy, devastatingly patient, and steeped in the flatland desolation of the Great Plains.

New York's Immortal Rotting has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of death and doom, where the tempo slows to a crawl and the heaviness becomes genuinely oppressive.

Houston's Imp Tea brews stoner and doom metal into a slow, hazy concoction that reflects the city's humid lethargy — heavy enough to crush, loose enough to feel lived-in.

Crawling out of La Puente since 2020, Impalement drag death metal into suffocating doom territory, piling on rot and weight in equal measure. Their sound sits somewhere between a funeral procession and a cave-in.

California's In Absence of Angels blend progressive ambition with the crushing weight of death-doom, crafting sprawling, desolate compositions that feel like grief mapped onto music since their 2021 formation.

Colossal Funeral Doom Metal from Austin.

Crushing Southern / Heavy Metal, Stoner / Doom Metal from College Station.