Wilmington, North Carolina's Baag traffics in the slow-moving punishment of doom and sludge metal, a project that has been carving out a heavy, feedback-drenched presence in the Southeast underground since 2018.

Philadelphia power-violence and grindcore trio who describe their music as Eternal Microbursts of Electric Power, releasing a string of EPs and split 7-inches including records with Nimbus Terrifix and Chainsaw to the Face alongside albums such as Primordial Paranoia and Psychic Rot.

Orlando progressive and sludge metal band active from around 2013, blending slow-burning sludge weight with progressive song structures in the fertile Florida extreme metal underground.

Oakland sludge metal and crust band active from around 2013, fusing the abrasive weight of sludge with the rawer urgency of crust punk.

Fort Wayne, Indiana sludge and doom outfit channeling misanthropy, crime, and despair into crushingly heavy riffs, building a relentlessly bleak sonic portrait since 2017.

Fort Worth sludge and doom act whose slow-motion heaviness landed somewhere between Southern doom and noise rock before the band dissolved.

A sludge/doom metal outfit from New Orleans, Louisiana formed in 2017, drawing on the city's rich tradition of slow, crushing heavy music.

An Alabama heavy/doom/sludge metal outfit from the small town of Warrior, Barbarian Funeral surfaced in 2024 with a compilation track on Weedian's regional showcase Trip to Mississippi & Alabama.

Detroit's Barbed Casket is an all-instrumental sludge metal project, letting the weight and texture of the music speak without vocals since forming in 2021.