A brand-new entry from Minneapolis, Timesloth lean fully into the sludge metal tradition—slow, oppressive riffing steeped in feedback and grime, suited to the city's long winters and heavy underground scene since their 2025 formation.

Olympia's Toadliquor have been peddling some of the ugliest and most oppressive sludge-doom the Pacific Northwest has produced since their 2003 formation, dragging out riffs to their most suffocating extremes against a backdrop of feedback and misanthropy.

Chattanooga newcomers Toadsmoke formed in 2023 with a filthy hybrid of death metal and sludge, piling on the Tennessee muck with riffs that lurch and churn with equal parts grime and violence.

Denton's Todopoderoso, assembled in 2023, push progressive and sludge metal into unexpected territory, blending North Texas's vibrant experimental music scene with the genre's heaviest and most challenging structural tendencies.

Seattle's Toilet Boys, assembled in 2024, wade through a particularly grimy mix of sludge and death metal — caustic, bottom-heavy, and carrying the city's long history of ugly, confrontational music into the present.

Wilmington, North Carolina's Toke have been delivering fuzz-drenched, smoke-soaked sludge and stoner metal since 2015 — the kind of slow, heavy music made for maximum volume and minimal sobriety, built from the coastal South's laid-back heaviness.

Butler, Pennsylvania's Tombless emerged in 2023 merging death metal's ferocity with sludge metal's weight, dragging tempos down through tar-thick riffs while maintaining enough savagery to keep the material fully in extreme metal territory.

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Greenville, South Carolina's Tone S.T.S. have been channeling black metal's hatred and sludge metal's oppressive slow burn into a unified, filth-encrusted sound since 2015. The combination suits the isolation of the Upstate South, where atmosphere and weight converge into something genuinely suffocating.

Kissimmee, Florida's Tooms emerged in 2018 grafting groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness onto a metalcore skeleton, resulting in the kind of melodic, rhythmically locked sound that translates well in a live setting. Their MA genre tag of "melodic groove metal/metalcore" captures the balance precisely.

Miami's Torche are one of the defining bands of the 2000s heavy underground, masterfully fusing sludge metal's density with melodic pop hooks and stoner fuzz to create music that is simultaneously crushing and oddly euphoric. Since 2005, they have built a body of work that has earned them devoted followings well outside the metal world.

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.

Bloomington, Indiana's Torturess weave together doom, sludge, and traditional heavy metal into a dense, riff-forward sound that recalls the crushing weight of Electric Wizard alongside the groove-driven swagger of '70s-influenced hard rock.

New Orleans sludge metal band Totem draw on the city's legendary tradition of low-end heaviness, building slow-churning riff structures and oppressive grooves in the spirit of the Southern swamp metal the region has long exported.

St. Augustine, Florida's Tower deal in the slow and crushing intersection of doom and sludge metal, leaning into feedback-drenched heaviness and plodding tempos that reward patient listening with a suffocating sense of weight.