New York's Immortal Rotting has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of death and doom, where the tempo slows to a crawl and the heaviness becomes genuinely oppressive.

Houston's Imp Tea brews stoner and doom metal into a slow, hazy concoction that reflects the city's humid lethargy — heavy enough to crush, loose enough to feel lived-in.

Crawling out of La Puente since 2020, Impalement drag death metal into suffocating doom territory, piling on rot and weight in equal measure. Their sound sits somewhere between a funeral procession and a cave-in.

California's In Absence of Angels blend progressive ambition with the crushing weight of death-doom, crafting sprawling, desolate compositions that feel like grief mapped onto music since their 2021 formation.

Colossal Funeral Doom Metal from Austin.

Chicago's Indian formed in 2003 and became a defining force in American sludge and doom metal through a series of increasingly punishing releases. Their 2014 album From All Purity, widely considered their finest work, pushed their suffocating guitar tone and confrontational atmosphere to its furthest extreme before the band's initial hiatus; they reunited and released further material before ultimately disbanding in 2022.

Crushing Southern / Heavy Metal, Stoner / Doom Metal from College Station.

Emerging from Morehead, Kentucky, Jack-in-Irons has spent over two decades weaving psychedelic doom and stoner metal into a thick, unhurried sound rooted in the heavy traditions of Appalachian isolation — slow grooves, fuzzed-out tones, and an earthy weight that lingers.

York, Pennsylvania's Jade Mountain arrived in 2022 bearing a dense, suffocating sound that merges blackened atmospherics with the crushing low-end of sludge and the despairing weight of doom — bleak, patient, and unrelenting.