Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.

Minneapolis outfit Empires have been dragging doom and sludge through post-metal's murky corridors since 2008, building suffocating walls of slow-motion riff work layered with atmospheric texture.

Born from the Jersey Shore in 2022, Empress Ephemeral craft post-metal that echoes with coastal isolation — expansive, tide-worn, and built to dissolve slowly.

Hagerstown, Maryland post-metal and sludge band building expansive, emotionally charged soundscapes since 2013. Their music finds the balance between sludge's aggression and post-metal's introspective, texture-driven architecture.

Hudson Valley's Enskye builds atmospheric sludge and post-metal into slow-rising emotional catharsis, using New York's scenic Hudson River backdrop as a spiritual canvas for expansive, heavy instrumental exploration.

Rising from Ogden against the backdrop of Utah's Wasatch Mountains, this atmospheric doom/post-metal band stretches slow, heavy compositions across vast sonic terrain where despair and transcendence coexist.

Puyallup, Washington sludge/post-metal band Ergo I Exist philosophize through feedback and slow-burn intensity, turning Pacific Northwest gloom into expansive, riff-laden meditations on consciousness and weight.

Chicago's Errant grafts the abrasion and cold fury of black metal onto post-metal's patience for expansive, emotionally textured compositions. Formed in 2020, the band channels the Midwest's long winters and urban density into music that is simultaneously claustrophobic and yearning.

New Jersey's Eternal Fuzz have been dialing up mammoth stoner doom and post-metal walls of fuzz since 2009, their sound as thick and unhurried as a summer afternoon that refuses to end. Cranbury Township has produced one of the Garden State's most reliably heavy acts.