Portland stoner metal project whose 2025-2026 releases blend heavy grooves with electronic remix culture. Named after the flowers of the Greek underworld, their New Paradigm album suggests a forward-looking approach to fuzz worship.

Canton, Georgia doom band crafting spacious, meditative heaviness from the North Georgia foothills, their cosmic themes reflected in patient, expansive songwriting.

Rochester, New York doom metal project with five releases since 2021. Their catalog — from the Black Sabbath-channeling Space Grass single to the ambitious Deus Ex Machina — blends classic doom worship with cosmic themes from Western New York.

Houston black/doom metal project blending cosmic horror with crushing heaviness from Space City, the name itself a portmanteau hinting at astrological and occult themes.

Seattle/Long Beach doom and drone metal project. The minimalist name matches their approach — glacially paced, frequency-obsessed heaviness that operates at the outer reaches of metal's slowest subgenre.

Kent, Ohio doom band from the college town that birthed Devo, delivering a very different kind of heavy — slow, meditative, and crushingly weighty.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania doom band merging cosmic horror with crushing heaviness from the heart of Amish Country, an inspired juxtaposition of pastoral setting and Lovecraftian dread.

Oakland/San Francisco sludge metal project with deep roots stretching back to 2003. Five releases including the lowercase-titled atone summer beats and beyond the clouds reveal a veteran act that has evolved from pure sludge into more atmospheric territory across two decades.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin doom band named after the Alabama city, delivering Southern-fried doom heaviness from the shores of Lake Winnebago with thick, bluesy riffs.

Lexington, Kentucky doom and heavy metal project with two EPs since 2016. Fin de Siècle and Interregnum pair historical period terminology with crushing doom, the political vocabulary matching their authoritarian name.

Cincinnati power metal project whose 2015 single — featuring a collaboration with Dr. Space — blends cosmic exploration with mythological reference. Echoes Of Mount Ida reaches from ancient Troy to the stars.

Daytona Beach heavy metal outfit B.T. Saints has been active since 2016, drawing on Florida's deep tradition of hard-hitting metal to deliver a straightforward and unapologetically earnest take on the genre.

New Brunswick, New Jersey sludge and doom metal band active since 1993, building a deep catalog that includes Future Slum, Whiskey and Arm Wrestling, and a live set recorded at Roadburn 2017.

Brooklyn psychedelic doom and stoner metal band formed in 2010, issuing the Demonstration EP and the Black Blizzard single — their hazy, slow-burning approach sits at the intersection of doom and psychedelic rock.

Kentucky doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2016, blending the slow crush of doom with fuzz-heavy stoner rock grooves across an eclectic catalog.