One of the more singular acts in American heavy music, Eagle Twin emerged from Salt Lake City in 2009 to build an uncompromising wall of drone-heavy sludge doom, where riffs don't so much crush as they slowly collapse under their own gravity.

The Olympia originals. Earth essentially invented drone doom in the early 1990s, and Dylan Carlson's project has never stopped pushing — from the sub-bass cathedral of their early work to the spaced-out psychedelic territory they've since occupied.

One of the more singular voices in American underground metal, Olympia's Echtra has spent over two decades weaving atmospheric black metal, drone, and folk into meditative, earth-bound compositions that defy easy categorization.

Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.

Nebraska's Endless Bummer smears drone, sludge, and doom into a suffocating slow-motion dirge that feels as flat and relentless as the Great Plains themselves. Formed in 2013, their music is the sound of existential weight given a distortion pedal.

Rock Springs, Wyoming's Enord Khan crafts expansive drone and doom metal from one of the most isolated corners of the American West, translating vast empty landscapes into suffocating, hypnotic low-frequency ritual.

Emerging from Eugene, Oregon in 2025, Eutrophic are one of the newest voices in the Pacific Northwest's dense and suffocating heavy music scene. Their blend of sludge, drone, and doom metal draws on the region's tradition of crushing slowness, layering toxic drone frequencies over agonizing tempos.