Montana's Dead Sorcery arrived in 2024 with sludge and stoner doom built for remote, mountainous terrain — riff-heavy, occult-tinged, and slow enough to let every note sink in. A promising new entry in the Pacific Northwest-adjacent heavy underground.

Denver's DeadVessel navigate the intersection of stoner, groove, and progressive metal with the high-altitude confidence of a band comfortable pushing ideas in multiple directions at once. Formed in 2015, they blend head-nodding heaviness with genuine structural ambition.

Kingsport, Tennessee's Deafened occupy a gloomy corner where depressive black metal, stoner doom, and ambient drift converge — music that sounds like the Appalachian hills turning dark around you. Since 2022, the project has leaned hard into desolation.

Newton, New Jersey's Death Catapult sling slow-burning stoner doom at the audience like boulders through fog, trading speed for weight and atmosphere. Formed in 2025, they draw from the heaviest end of fuzz-soaked doom and psychedelic rock.

Virginia Beach's Death Harvest tend a crop of sun-scorched stoner doom, wringing heavy psych fuzz and oppressive tempos out of the coastal Virginia underground since 2022. Their riffs sprawl and crush in equal measure, conjuring images of flat farmland and burning sky.

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania's Death Rising blend groove metal's heaviness with stoner metal's hazy, slow-burning swagger — a combination that hits like a tire iron wrapped in smoke. Rolling slow and heavy through the Pennsylvania hills since 2021.

Huntington progressive/stoner metal act Deckard drifts through heavy psychedelia with a slow, deliberate weight that reflects West Virginia's Appalachian surroundings. Since 2012, they've built a reputation on riff-first songwriting that rewards patience as much as volume.

Aurora's Decline of Sanity blend the slow, suffocating weight of stoner metal with death metal's guttural fury — a hazy, punishing combination that arrived in 2024 from Colorado's high-altitude underground. Equal parts skull-crush and slow burn.

Chicago stoner/doom outfit Deepspacepilots have been navigating fuzz-heavy, gravity-warped heaviness since 2006, equal parts Midwest grit and cosmic drift.