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Nashville, TN · 1993–present · active
'Big Jim' Shively is a one-man doom and psychedelic rock project from Nashville, Tennessee. Active since the early 1990s under the CRANK moniker, the project has amassed a sprawling catalog of recordings spanning cassette-era demos to full-lengths, blending heavy doom riffs with lysergic psychedelic wandering across more than two decades of output.
CA · 2015–present · active
10:13 is a psychedelic heavy band from California whose two releases span 24 tracks of hallucinogenic heaviness since 2015. The band weaves occult imagery and sprawling compositions into a dense sonic tapestry, with tracks like "In the Black Book of Death" and "Oathbade" pointing toward ritual, ceremonial atmospheres. Their music sits at the intersection of psychedelia, doom, and heavy rock.
Columbus, OH · 2017–present · active
Columbus, Ohio post-metal and psychedelic project. The Russian word for 'shark' adds predatory edge to atmospheric heaviness.
Austin, TX · 2006–present · active
Austin psychedelic doom — Muddy Waters sitting in with Mastodon.
San Antonio, TX · 1981–present · inactive
San Antonio noise rock/psychedelic punk chaos. Completely unhinged and absolutely essential.
Austin, TX · 2014–present · active
Austin heavy psych/proto-metal. Vintage-sounding riffs with a modern edge.
Houston, TX · 2019–present · active
Houston psychedelic doom metal signed to Ripple Music.
Austin, TX · 1992–present · active
Austin space rock/doom band blending stoner doom, psychedelia, and vintage analog synths. Featuring Rob McCarthy on guitar/vocals/synths, they released The Band from Beyond on Bandcamp in 2018 after years of demos and EPs.
Arlington, TX · 1996–present · active
Mind-expanding psychedelic/space rock project of Solitude Aeturnus guitarist John Perez.
Austin, TX · 2012–present · active
Dark psychedelic heaviness channeling Swans and Sabbath from Austin.
TX · 2009–? · disbanded
Crushing Psychedelic Rock, Doom Metal from New York, New York /.
Greenfield, OH · 2002–present · active
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
Fort Worth, TX · 2009–present · active
Fort Worth stoner rock trio known for dark, spacious psychedelic jamming they call Doom Jazz.
Austin, TX · 2008–present · active
Suffocating Psychedelic Doom / Sludge Metal from Austin.

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