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.

Santa Cruz sludge metal outfit Barf leans into the genre's grimy, low-tuned heaviness, adding a dose of West Coast irreverence through a name that doubles as a statement of intent.

Brattleboro, Vermont's Barishi blended progressive and sludge metal with nature-themed imagery before their split, earning recognition through appearances on Season of Mist's 2016 sampler and leaving members to continue in the project Ordh.

Formed in Savannah, Georgia in 2003, Baroness became one of the defining acts of the progressive sludge metal movement, known for frontman John Baizley's iconic visual artwork and the band's resilience following a serious tour bus crash in 2012.

Chicago's Barren Heir have been cultivating a sound in the sludge and doom metal tradition since 2015, contributing to the city's robust underground heavy music community with a brooding, riff-driven approach.

A Dallas sludge/thrash metal act, Barren Mind bring a crushed, heavy sound to Texas's fertile extreme metal landscape by combining the caustic weight of sludge with thrash aggression.

Portland's Bastard Feast is a ferocious collision of sludge, death metal, grindcore, and crust, channeling social unrest and anarchic politics; they released material on Season of Mist Underground Activists.

A New York sludge/doom outfit with industrial undercurrents active from 2008 to around 2013, releasing material through Seventh Rule Recordings and appearing on several early-2010s metal compilations.

San Antonio metallic hardcore influenced by NYHC. Released on Deathwish Inc.

Heavy Doom / Sludge Metal / Grunge out of Texas.

Grinding Sludge Metal out of Texas.

Rockville, Connecticut's Cable underwent a dramatic stylistic transformation over their long career — from metalcore and hardcore beginnings in 1994 through to atmospheric sludge metal — earning placements on Hydra Head Records compilations and an Eyehategod tribute record.