Star Traveller is a US drone and doom metal project formed in 2018, exploring vast, slowly evolving sonic landscapes where minimalist drone textures merge with the glacial heaviness of doom metal.

Geneva, Illinois drone, doom, and sludge metal band formed in 2021, layering oppressive sonic weight across slow, cavernous compositions in the tradition of Midwestern heavy experimentalism.

Sunn O))) are one of the most influential drone/doom metal acts in the world, formed in Los Angeles in 2000 by Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson as a continuation and expansion of the Earth drone legacy. Their music consists of monolithic walls of heavily amplified guitar feedback and sub-bass rumble that blur the lines between metal, minimalist composition, and ritual sound art.

Sunrot are a sludge/drone/doom metal band from northern New Jersey, formed in 2014, known for punishing walls of noise that combine the slow-motion heaviness of doom with the abrasive corrosiveness of drone and the filth-soaked aggression of sludge.

Sunwrecker is a black/doom drone metal project from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, formed in 2019, conjuring suffocating sonic landscapes that draw equally from the desolation of black metal, the glacial weight of doom, and the trance-inducing repetition of drone.

Boston's Tentacle have been exploring the furthest reaches of drone/doom since 2012, a city with a rich tradition of crushing, slow-moving metal that they honor and push into more abstract territory. Their music is more ritual than song — long, pulsating walls of sound that use repetition as a tool of trance rather than laziness.

Detroit's The ChristPunchers have been wallowing in drone/doom metal and ambient darkness since 2011, their name an act of provocation matched by music that slows riffs to a near-geological tempo and lets dissonance linger until it becomes its own form of heavy. They're a product of Detroit's underground, where extremity has always found creative expression in the city's post-industrial silence.

Baton Rouge's Thou are one of the defining names in American sludge and drone-doom, known for prolific output, uncompromising heaviness, and a DIY ethos rooted in the South's noise and punk traditions since their 2007 formation. Their music moves at a suffocating crawl, layering feedback, anguish, and political fury into some of the most crushing slow-burn metal of the past two decades.

Salem, Oregon's Thrones is essentially a solo project that has operated since 1996 under the creative direction of one of the American underground's most idiosyncratic figures, building an enormous bass-driven drone and doom sound that is utterly its own thing. Slow, cavernous, and hypnotic, Thrones occupies a unique corner of the heavy music spectrum where doom, noise, and experimental music collapse into a single suffocating mass.