A recent arrival from Salt Lake City, Fabler has been crafting heavy, earth-bound doom and stoner metal since 2023 — slow riffs steeped in desert haze that reward patient listeners.

Phoenix's Face the Flames lean into the slow and the heavy, crafting stoner-doom that trades the desert city's relentless heat into fuzz-soaked riffs and brooding, patient tempos since 2017.

Evansville, Indiana's Faerie Ring has been blending doom and stoner metal since 2018, bringing heavy, psych-laced riffs and an occult-folk sensibility to a part of the Midwest not always associated with the heavier end of the spectrum.

Fort Collins, Colorado's Falcon Haptics has been delivering stoner metal and heavy rock since 2020 — a city at the base of the Rockies that pairs well with the slow, weed-hazed enormity the genre demands.

Metairie, Louisiana's Fall from Grace leans into stoner and doom metal with the low-end density and swampy atmosphere that the Gulf South does better than most, a band formed in 2018 in the shadow of New Orleans.

Los Angeles stoner metal act Fallen Suns have been letting their riffs breathe since 2016, drawing on Southern California's long tradition of fuzz-soaked heavy rock and desert-influenced slowburn. Their music moves at the pace of heat — unhurried, thick, and designed to expand in open space.

Shelton, Washington's Fantastic Flying Foelschs commits fully to the absurdity of their name while playing utterly serious doom, sludge, and stoner metal. Formed in 2018, they've evolved from eclectic roots into a band with genuine heaviness at their core.

Started as stoner/sludge, pivoted to thrash and black metal territory. Played their final show at Kick Butt Coffee in July 2022.

Crushing Blackened Sludge / Stoner Metal from Austin.

Punishing three-piece that sounded bigger than most five-piece bands. Evolved from Black Flag-style stoner punk into full-blown doom. Four albums between 2013 and 2018 before calling it quits.