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Cheyenne, WY · 2025–present · active
Cheyenne, Wyoming funeral doom and sludge project. The name builds a dystopian religious hierarchy from one of America's least populated state capitals.
NY · 2019–present · active
Aeolian Winds is a funeral doom and classical music project from New York City. Bridging the worlds of extreme metal and composed classical music, the project has released material ranging from piano compositions to glacial funeral doom, including the EP "Upon a Dead Horizon" and pieces written for solo piano.
Chicago, IL · 2013–present · active
Ailing is a funeral doom metal band from Chicago. Their 2013 full-length "Transient Passengers" delivers eight tracks of glacially slow, crushing funeral doom — the kind of music measured in geological time rather than minutes.
FL · 2000–present · active
Florida death metal and funeral doom project. The Greek word for 'unclean' channels impurity through the Sunshine State's slowest, heaviest sounds.
Portland, OR · 2007–present · active
Aldebaran is a funeral doom and sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon. Named after the red giant star, the band's two releases — including the 2008 full-length "...From Forgotten Tombs" — deliver the kind of glacial, earth-shaking heaviness that defines Portland's storied doom scene.
Grand Rapids, MI · 2024–present · active
Grand Rapids, Michigan funeral doom project plumbing the absolute depths of slow, crushing heaviness. A 2024 promo signals an artist committed to the most glacially paced and emotionally devastating corner of doom metal.
MN · 2018–present · active
Minnesota black metal and funeral doom project named after Ptolemy's astronomical treatise. Ancient stargazing rendered through the genre's slowest and coldest forms.
Seattle, WA · 2008–present · active
Seattle funeral doom practitioners crafting glacially paced devastation since 2008. Their split with IVES and the Winter Songs EP traffic in the genre's most patient extremes — music measured not in minutes but in geological time, fitting for the grey Pacific Northwest.
Minneapolis, MN · 2024–present · active
Minneapolis funeral doom project from the Minnesota underground.
Kingsport, TN · 2024–present · active
Kingsport black metal project from the Tennessee underground.
Boulder Creek, CA · 2025–present · active
Boulder Creek black metal project from the California underground.
Oakland, CA · 1998–present · active
Oakland funeral doom band whose glacially slow, devastatingly heavy sound helped define the Bay Area's doom underground, delivering crushing emotional weight across vast, sprawling compositions.
NY · 2007–present · active
New York funeral doom project with two releases since 2007. Displaced and Uncharted and the earlier Obelisk demo deliver glacially paced heaviness — funeral doom at its most patient and punishing.
Baltimore, MD · 2016–present · active
Baltimore black metal and funeral doom project with four releases since 2016. Named after a cheap solvent inhaled by Romanian street children, their music channels that same desperate, impoverished atmosphere through the bleakest extremes of heavy music.

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