Seattle, Washington doom and stoner metal band formed in 2014, delivering plodding, fuzz-soaked heaviness that draws from the rich tradition of Pacific Northwest heavy music alongside the stoner and doom metal underground.

Swarmcatcher is a doom and sludge metal band from Grafton, Massachusetts, formed in 2022, dealing in slow, crushing riffs and oppressive heaviness rooted in the New England underground.

Formed in Los Angeles in 2021, Swartvoud crafts atmospheric black and doom metal with a cavernous, melancholic depth, blending slow-burning doom passages with frost-covered black metal atmospherics.

Swaumphth is a black, thrash, and doom metal project from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, formed in 2025, exploring a primitive and murky convergence of those traditions.

Critically acclaimed stoner doom from Austin.

Sweet Cicada is a doom and stoner metal band from Lewisburg, West Virginia, active since 2014, drawing on the Appalachian landscape for a heavy, psychedelic sound rooted in vintage fuzz and slow tempos.

Sweetland is a psychedelic doom metal and grunge-influenced project from Mankato, Minnesota, formed in 2025, combining slow, heavy riffs with hazy, druggy atmosphere.

Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.

Albuquerque, New Mexico's Sword Horse have played sludge and doom metal since 2018, incorporating noise elements into their heavy, slow-churning sound shaped by the high desert Southwest.

Upper Darby, Pennsylvania act formed in 2012 that began in gothic rock and metal before shifting toward a heavier combination of gothic, doom, and death metal, balancing atmospheric gloom with crushing low-register weight.

Portland, Oregon doom/death metal band formed in 2013, channeling the slow, oppressive weight of death-doom in a Pacific Northwest scene better known for its black metal output.

Death/doom metal band from Mount Prospect, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the suffocating combination of cavernous death metal heaviness and doom metal's funeral pace that defines the death-doom subgenre.

Los Angeles outfit Taarkus emerged in 2016 at the crossroads of doom and progressive metal, threading heavy, slow-burning riffs through elaborate arrangements that reward patient listeners. Named after the ELP album, they carry that spirit of ambition into the doom underground — crushing low-end weight balanced against exploratory song structures that push well beyond standard genre constraints.

Formed in Frederick, Maryland in 2025, Taartaros arrive fully formed at the bleakest convergence of black, death, and doom metal — a suffocating trifecta that trades no one style for another. Their sound is early and uncompromising, built on cold dissonance and funeral-pace heaviness laced with the caustic edge of death metal aggression.

Detroit's Temple of the Fuzz Witch formed in 2017 in the shadow of a city that has been making heavy, slow music for decades, and their stoner/doom approach carries that industrial weight in every note. Electric fuzz saturates their sound from root to stem — lumbering riffs, warm distortion, and the hypnotic pull of a groove that moves like machinery.