Austin psychedelic doom — Muddy Waters sitting in with Mastodon.

Lovecraft-obsessed one-man project of droning black metal colliding with funeral doom. Three albums on Moribund Records before dissolving in 2008 after just two years.

Towering Stoner / Doom Metal out of Texas.

Fort Worth doom quartet blending classic doom, desert rock, and NWOBHM influences. Three Texans and one Englishman delivering heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs.

Olympia, Washington's C Average have been conjuring heavy and doom-laden metal since 1996, drawing on medieval and fantasy themes. They are perhaps best known for performing a live score to the 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu alongside cellist Lori Goldston at the Capitol Theater.

Poughkeepsie death/black metal act C.A.I.N. — the acronym standing for "Christ Aborted in Nativity" — formed in 2000 and released material independently before splitting up.

Eugene, Oregon's C.I.A Hippie Mind Control play a dense strain of psychedelic doom metal and have racked up multiple compilation appearances since 2019, including tracks on The Swamp Records' Crow and Poe collection.

Formed in Syracuse, New York in 2017, Cactus Cathedral crafts slow-burning stoner and doom metal weighted with riff-heavy grooves and an earthy, psychedelic undertow.

A sludge and doom outfit from Dover, New Hampshire, Cactus Hag fuses southern-inflected heaviness with slow, grinding tempos and a grimy, feedback-drenched sound.

Hailing from Watertown, New York, Cacus plays stoner and doom metal rooted in thick, mid-paced riffing and a hazy, amplifier-worshipping aesthetic.

A doom and stoner metal project, Caduceus brings a heavy, narcotic quality to the genre, built around monolithic riffs and a slow, hypnotic sense of dread.

Seattle psychedelic doom/stoner metal band drawing on the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, hazy riffing since 2015.

Philadelphia doom/death metal band that emerged from the ashes of sludge act Black Urn in 2018, releasing the 2023 full-length From Roving About the Earth.

New Jersey doom/death/thrash metal band from Monmouth County, folding all three of heavy metal's most crushing strains into a single sound since 2017.

Indianapolis black/death/doom metal band formed in 2020, navigating the suffocating overlap of three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres.