Kalispell, Montana's Wizzerd formed in 2015 in one of the most geographically remote metal scenes in the country, and that isolation informs their sprawling, cosmic take on stoner and doom metal. Their music reaches for the same vast open spaces that define Big Sky Country, building long, heavy compositions that feel as expansive as the landscape surrounding them. Among the handful of heavy bands calling Montana home, Wizzerd stand out for their genuine ambition and prolific output.

Dallas stoner doom with huge psychedelic riffs. Some of the heaviest grooves in Texas.

Wolfpussy formed in Portland, Oregon in 2012, channeling the city's love of heavy, slow, and sun-baked into a stoner metal sound built on thick riffs and unhurried groove. Portland has long nurtured heavy music that values texture and feel over technical complexity, and Wolfpussy fits squarely in that tradition — the kind of band that wants the room to move together rather than stand in awe. Their name alone signals a band with a sense of humor about the gravity its genre sometimes takes too seriously.

Wolftooth formed in Richmond, Indiana in 2017, comprising musicians with two decades of genre experience each, pursuing a sound that fuses 1970s NWOBHM energy, stoner doom riffage, and blues-drenched soloing. Their self-titled debut (2018) placed seventh on the Doom Charts' year-end list, and Valhalla (2020) debuted at number one on the same chart, leading to a deal with Napalm Records. Blood and Iron (2021) and Wizard's Light (2025, Ripple Music) have sustained their reputation as one of the foremost traditional doom-inflected heavy metal acts in the US.

Phoenix's Wolves of Winter pull from the long tradition of doom and stoner metal — slow, crushing riffs draped in fuzz and desert heat. Formed in 2013, their sound sits somewhere between the hypnotic weight of doom and the narcotic groove of stoner rock, building the kind of heavy that settles in the chest. Metal Archives tags them with hard rock in the mix as well, pointing to a band that knows when to let a riff breathe.

Seattle's Worn Away have been an interesting shape-shifter since their 2013 formation, moving from doom and stoner metal origins toward a harder-edged crossover thrash and death metal sound over time. That evolution mirrors a broader restlessness in the Pacific Northwest underground, where genre boundaries are treated more as starting points than destinations.

Chicago grindcore outfit Worn Out have been honing their craft since 2017, channeling the city's rich history of extreme music into short, savage bursts of noise. Grindcore in its most functional form — fast, ugly, and unapologetic — has always found a home in Chicago, and Worn Out carry that tradition forward without sentimentality.

Brooklyn's Wretched Tsar have been dragging sludge and stoner metal through New York's underground since 2016, combining the slow, crushing weight of sludge with the hazy, amplifier-worship side of stoner metal. The result is heavy in both mass and atmosphere, made for dark rooms and loud speakers.

Tennessee's Wëëdkiller are a nascent stoner/doom act formed in 2026, crafting slow, hazy heaviness from the fertile Southern underground where heat and humidity seem to seep into every downtuned riff. Their name and sound together point toward a band comfortable wallowing in the slow burn.