Amherst, Massachusetts's Showhorses blend post-black metal atmosphere with stoner metal's riff-heavy warmth, creating a hazy and unsettling sound that sidesteps easy categorization since their 2016 formation.

San Francisco's Shrinebuilder are a supergroup formed in 2009 from members of Sleep, Neurosis, The Melvins, and Scott Kelly's solo projects, combining stoner and doom metal traditions into monolithic, lysergic compositions that draw from the full weight of their members' combined legacies.

Chicago doom and stoner metal outfit formed in 2023, channeling the heavy, haze-drenched weight of slow-grinding riffs and oppressive atmosphere. A young band from the Midwest already staking out territory in the ritualistic end of the doom spectrum.

Richmond, Virginia stoner/doom metal band formed in 2013, named for the prophetic oracles of antiquity and channeling a similarly hypnotic, ritual-heavy atmosphere through slow tempos, fuzz-laden guitar tone, and the lysergic heaviness that defines the Virginia doom scene.

Olympia, Washington stoner/doom duo formed in 2018, building slow, haze-soaked riffs into hypnotic, heavy structures — fitting for a city steeped in DIY culture and Pacific Northwest atmosphere.

Knoxville's Sign of the Sorcerer trade in hazy psychedelic doom and stoner metal, blending lysergic riffs with slow, heavy grooves in a style rooted in the occult and classic fuzz worship since 2019.

New Jersey-based Sigourney combine the murky, feedback-drenched heaviness of sludge metal with the hazy, loping grooves of stoner metal, crafting a sound that is both oppressive and hypnotic since 2020.

Dallas outfit Sik have been blending groove metal's locking rhythmic punch with the fuzz-heavy swagger of stoner metal since 2012, channeling the hard-edged heaviness that has long defined the Texas underground.

A brand-new project out of Marquette, Michigan formed in 2025, Siltgrove blend stoner and doom metal into something that feels shaped by the Upper Peninsula's isolation — slow, heavy, and suffused with the kind of earthy weight that the region's landscape seems to demand.