Out of Laurens, South Carolina, Ghost Creek traffic in the slowest and most suffocating end of funeral doom — dirges that move like sediment through still water, heavy with grief and geological patience. Founded in 2019, their music invites total surrender to the weight.

Portland, Oregon's Grave Monolith traffic in funeral doom metal of suffocating patience — slow processions of grief and inevitability stretched to their absolute limits. Formed in 2023, they build monuments out of silence and drone as much as sound.

New Jersey's Guthook inhabit the most desolate end of funeral doom, stretching songs into extended meditations on grief and decay while weaving in death metal's tonal brutality. Active since 2014, they operate in real slow-motion darkness — the kind that takes hours to lift.