These Beasts are a Chicago stoner/sludge metal band formed in 2010, built on thick, fuzz-drenched riffs and the slow, swaggering heaviness that defines the genre's best moments. Their music carries the grimy industrial weight of the city filtered through weed-soaked amplifier worship.

They Watch Us from the Moon is a stoner/doom metal band from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2019, rolling out heavy, fuzz-soaked riffs beneath a cosmic, wide-open-sky atmosphere that feels at home in the flat Kansas landscape. Their sound evokes both earthbound heaviness and a fixation on vast, unknowable distances.

Thieving Coyote is a southern stoner metal band from Florence, South Carolina, formed in 2013, blending the swampy, sun-scorched swagger of Southern metal with the heavy fuzz of stoner rock into a distinctly regional sound. Their name captures both the trickster mythology of the American South and the scavenging independence of underground heavy music.

Thinning the Herd is a New York stoner metal band formed in 2011, leaning into the heavy riff and low-end rumble of stoner metal and rock with a sardonic name that matches the genre's dark humor traditions. Without a fixed city, they maintain a degree of mystery consistent with the underground stoner circuit.

A psychedelic doom outfit from the small Wisconsin town of Hatley, Third Eye Rider pursue the hazy crossroads where stoner riffing and slow, crushing doom converge. Their sound leans into extended, fog-thick arrangements that reward patience over speed.

Bloomington, Indiana's Thorr-Axe play a riff-worshipping brand of stoner doom that sits comfortably in the lineage of Electric Wizard and Saint Vitus while carrying its own Midwestern heft. Formed in 2010, the band leans into fuzz-thick guitar tone and hypnotic, plodding tempos that invite the listener to lose themselves in the low end.

Fort Wayne, Indiana outfit formed in 2018 who draw from the deep well of stoner, doom, and sludge metal, building songs around heavy, slow-rolling riffs and oppressive atmospheres that reward patience and reward volume.

Oakland, California outfit formed in 2018 who fuse stoner metal's hazy, fuzz-drenched weight with crossover thrash's punk-inflected velocity — a pairing that captures something of the Bay Area's tradition of genre-blending heaviness.

Memphis, Tennessee's Throne weave symphonic orchestration through the foundation of black and death metal, adding cinematic grandeur to the aggression in a way that reflects the city's long history of genre-defying musical ambition.

Providence, Rhode Island's Throne of Saturn deal in the slow and heavy end of the sonic spectrum, fusing stoner rock fuzz with doom metal's ceremonial weight since 2014. Their sound draws naturally from New England's dense psychedelic and heavy underground, favoring low-tuned drone and cosmic riff repetition.

Richmond, Virginia's Throttlerod have been grinding out fuzz-heavy stoner metal since 2003, building a reputation as a relentless live force in the South's heavy underground over two decades. Their sound is rooted in massive, repetitive riffing and the dirty, road-worn aesthetic that defines the genre's best practitioners.

Omaha's Through the Stone ride the line between heavy metal muscle and stoner metal haze, delivering mid-paced riffs with a fuzz-soaked swagger that reflects the blue-collar grit of the Nebraska underground since 2015.

Atlanta's Thrumm emerged in 2022 with a slow-burning stoner-doom approach, layering fuzz-heavy guitar work and meditative tempos into the kind of suffocating, low-end-saturated sound the city's underground has long nurtured.

Washington state's Thud have been stirring doom, thrash, and stoner influences into a combustible mix since 2016, their Bandcamp presence under the name Songs for Children suggesting a sardonic sensibility beneath the genre-blending heaviness.

Formed in 2023 in Tomah, Wisconsin, Thundergoat operate in the stoner-doom space with a fuzz-heavy, plodding style that draws on the genre's ritualistic qualities — a newly minted entry in the Midwest's quietly growing heavy underground.