Kingston, New York's Shadow Witch have carved out a distinct niche in psychedelic stoner metal since 2016, letting thick fuzz tones, lysergic guitar excursions, and hypnotic rhythms do the heavy lifting in a Hudson Valley scene with a long history of heavy and experimental music. Their sound is rooted in the warm, narcotic end of the stoner genre rather than its more aggressive extremes.

Rooted in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Shalem draw on the arid landscape of the Southwest in their blend of heavy, doom, and stoner metal — music built for wide-open spaces and the psychedelic heat of the high desert. Active since 2009, they bring a laid-back but weighty approach that mixes earthy riff-rock with the slow, lumbering pulse of doom.

Boston's Shatner have been delivering stoner and heavy metal since 2004, bringing the Massachusetts city's long tradition of hard rock credibility to a sound that trades in thick riffs, desert-rock grooves, and an unhurried, hazy heaviness. One of the longer-running acts in their local scene, they carry a veteran's confidence in letting the riff do the work.

Milwaukee's Shit Outta Luck blends heavy metal muscle with stoner rock's riff-first sensibility and hard rock swagger, making them a natural fit for the Wisconsin bar-circuit heavy sound since 2012.

Clearwater, Florida's Shiver have been serving up heavy, fuzz-soaked stoner metal since 2013, drawing on the peculiar tension between Florida's sun-drenched geography and the genre's slow, narcotic heaviness to craft a distinctly hazy, psychedelic sound.

Named after H.P. Lovecraft's tentacled aberrations, Albuquerque's Shoggoth have been summoning Lovecraftian doom and stoner metal since 2019, combining the high desert's psychedelic atmosphere with slow, cosmic heaviness well-suited to New Mexico's otherworldly landscape.

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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.