California's Towering, active since 2016, occupy the slow, suffocating space where drone, doom, and sludge converge, building massive walls of distortion and deliberate, glacial pacing into music that functions more as a physical experience than a conventional listen.

Portland drone and doom metal act formed in 2017, pushing long-form, minimalist compositions into near-meditative territory where repetition and volume become the primary tools. Their Bandcamp URL 'ofthetrees' reflects the woodsy, organic quality of their oppressive sound.

Tacoma, Washington drone/doom/post-metal duo active since 2014, sculpting monolithic, slowly evolving soundscapes from feedback and repetition in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest's most extreme slow music.

Based in Boise, Idaho, Wolvserpent emerged in 2010 from the ashes of the duo's prior project Pussygutt, pursuing extreme doom and drone metal of meditative, sprawling intensity. Their debut Blood Seed (2010) and the follow-up Perigaea Antahkarana (2013, Relapse Records) are long-form works built from repetition, spiritual ecology themes, and a deliberate dissolution of structure, drawing comparisons to the most abstract end of the Earth and Sunn O))) traditions. The 2016 EP Aporia: Kala: Ananta continued the project's immersive, ritualistic approach.