Out of Westchester County, New York since 2017, Thunderon blend the hazy low end of stoner metal with the atmospheric reach of post-metal, crafting music that drifts between weighted groove and more expansive, effects-laden territory. Their suburban New York origin gives them a certain restless edge that keeps the music from settling too comfortably into either genre.

Austin's Tibetan Sky Burial fuse blackened savagery with the wide, contemplative sweep of post-metal, drawing on funerary imagery and drone-laden atmospherics. The project formed in 2020 and occupies the bleaker, more ritualistic corner of the Texas experimental underground.

Providence's Tides trade in atmospheric sludge and post-metal, building slow-burning compositions that favor emotional weight over brute force. Since 2014 the band has cultivated a sound rooted in dynamic tension, moving between quiet dread and dense, wall-of-sound crescendos.

Brooklyn's Tombs are one of the most distinctive voices to emerge from the New York underground, layering post-metal's expansive atmosphere over black metal's bleakness since 2009 to create dense, emotionally charged records that transcend both genres.

Phoenix, Arizona's Torment of Gloom, formed in 2020, combines doom, sludge, and post-metal into slow-burning, heavy-atmosphered soundscapes. The oppressive desert heat of their city seems to seep into their thick, suffocating sonic palette.

Frederick, Maryland's Trap Ratt are a very young sludge/post-metal act formed in 2024, dragging heavy atmospheric texture through slow, distorted riffing and building the kind of oppressive post-metal architecture that rewards patient listening.

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.