Keen of the Crow occupy the mournful territory where doom metal and death metal converge, a Los Angeles act formed in 2020 with a sound steeped in crushing grief and slow-burning heaviness.

Arvada, Colorado's Ketch drag doom and sludge together into something slow, filthy, and massive — formed in 2022, they deliver the kind of crushing riff-worship that makes the floor shake and the room feel smaller.

San Jose, California's Kevel have been in the heavy fuzz game since 2014, pairing stoner rock's psychedelic warmth with doom metal's glacial pace for a sound that's hazy, heavy, and fully hypnotic.

New York's Khanate are one of extreme music's most uncompromising acts — their drone/doom sound is not so much music as an endurance test, sculpting suffocating noise and anguished vocals into harrowing monuments since 2001.

Denver's Khemmis blend crushing doom with soaring melodic leads and harmonized vocals, carving out a sound that feels both ancient and emotionally immediate. Since forming in 2015, they've become one of the most celebrated doom acts in the American underground.

Fresh out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2025, Killiad brew sludge, stoner, and doom into something slow-boiled and heavy as wet earth. Asheville's fertile heavy underground provides the perfect conditions for this kind of deliberate, bone-deep metal.

Sarver, Pennsylvania's King of Undeath deal in doom metal with a name that telegraphs the aesthetic — slow, death-soaked, and funereal in the most satisfying way. A 2022 project that leans hard into the genre's darkest corners.

Drawing equally from doom and traditional heavy metal, Los Angeles' King Raven have been crafting dark, riff-driven songs since 2014. Their sound carries a gothic weight without fully surrendering to doom's slowest tempos.

King Woman is the San Francisco project of vocalist and songwriter Kristina Esfandiari, originally conceived as a solo endeavor around 2009 and later expanded into a full band. Their 2017 Relapse Records debut Created in the Image of Suffering, preceded by the 2015 EP Doubt on The Flenser, merged crushing doom metal with the hazy textures of shoegaze, drawing critical comparisons to Swans and Chelsea Wolfe. The follow-up, Celestial Blues (2021, Relapse), deepened the band's exploration of trauma, religious disillusionment, and atmospheric weight.