Evansville, Indiana's Faerie Ring has been blending doom and stoner metal since 2018, bringing heavy, psych-laced riffs and an occult-folk sensibility to a part of the Midwest not always associated with the heavier end of the spectrum.

Los Angeles's Faetooth occupies the intersection of doom, sludge, and post-metal — a trio of subgenres that reward patience and reward volume — building their layered, emotionally heavy sound since forming in 2019.

Ann Arbor's Fair Game started as a hard rock and heavy metal act before evolving toward psychedelic doom metal — a trajectory that reflects both the band's growth since 2018 and the fertile experimental energy of that Michigan college town.

A doom/death outfit from Tempe, Arizona, Fall of Empyrean emerged in 2020 with a sound built on suffocating low-end weight and cavernous atmosphere. They drag the listener through extended passages of grief-laden riffs where doom's glacial crawl meets death metal's crushing finality.

Chicago's Fallen Empire debuted in 2024, pursuing melodic death metal's marriage of technical aggression and muscular melody within one of America's richest metal cities. Their Bandcamp handle 'newfallenempire' signals a deliberate fresh start, distinguishing them from the genre's established names.

Out of Patchogue, New York, False Gods deal in the slow and heavy — doom and sludge metal that crawls forward with deliberate menace. Formed in 2016, they build tension through weight and repetition rather than speed.

Buffalo's Fane works in the overlapping territory of doom and sludge metal, where slow riffs carry enormous weight and the atmosphere is thick enough to feel physical. Since 2017, they've been one of upstate New York's heavier propositions.

New Jersey's FangTooth has been a death metal presence since 2011, doing the work without fuss or genre-blending complications. The name promises something with bite, and the band delivers accordingly.

Shelton, Washington's Fantastic Flying Foelschs commits fully to the absurdity of their name while playing utterly serious doom, sludge, and stoner metal. Formed in 2018, they've evolved from eclectic roots into a band with genuine heaviness at their core.