Sacramento's Giant Squid have spent over two decades crafting some of the most literary and emotionally complex music at the intersection of doom, post-metal, and progressive rock. Their ocean-deep arrangements unfold like dark novels in sound.

Out of Orono, Maine, GiantGiant layer stoner heaviness beneath progressive arrangements and doom-paced tempos, creating music that feels simultaneously earthbound and labyrinthine. The double name signals the doubled-down ambition behind every riff.

Portland, Oregon's Giantrider deal in the traditional craft of doom metal — slow tempos, massive guitar tone, and a suffocating atmosphere built for patience. Their name says it all: they ride riffs so large they swallow you whole.

Portland's Gidrah traffic in the filthiest and most suffocating end of sludge and doom, building walls of corrosive tone that move with the deliberate menace of something enormous and ancient. Their sound is the Pacific Northwest rain rendered in distortion.

Named after the visionary Swiss artist, Columbus, Georgia's Giger pursue a similarly biomechanical aesthetic through sludge and doom metal — music that feels organic and industrial at the same time. Their riffs carry the weight of rusted machinery dragged through tar.

Toms River's Giggler pull off an unlikely combination: fusing the grandiosity of power metal with the slow, oppressive crawl of doom. The result is something operatic and crushing in equal measure, a strange and compelling beast from the New Jersey underground.

New York's Girder build their stoner doom sound like heavy construction — methodical, load-bearing, and made to last. Formed in 2025, they're among the newest entrants to the northeast's already formidable heavy underground.

Lafayette, Louisiana's Girra draw from both black metal's cold fire and doom's glacial tempos, creating music that feels rooted in the murky, swampy darkness of their Gulf Coast home. Formed in 2015, they merge northern grimness with southern rot.

Atlanta's Girthquake rumble through stoner and doom metal with all the seismic authority their name promises, leaning into fuzz-saturated riffs and tempos slow enough to feel tectonic. They've been shaking Georgia loose since 2017.