Salt Lake City's Hibernaut pile sludge, stoner, and doom into a slow-moving mass that seems calibrated to induce a specific kind of narcotic heaviness. Formed in 2023, they occupy the hazy zone where riff weight and psychedelic drift become the same thing.

Franklin, Indiana's Hidden Dagger blend stoner haze and doom weight with groove metal's rhythmic snap, arriving at something simultaneously lumbering and propulsive. Since 2018 they've proven that mid-tempo heaviness can carry as much punch as anything faster.

Texas desert rock creating massive riffs influenced by Alice in Chains and Queens of the Stone Age.

Philadelphia's High Leaf rolled into the stoner metal world in 2023 with thick riffs and a commitment to the form's hazy, unhurried pleasures. They're squarely in the tradition of Philly heavy rock — unpretentious, loud, and more concerned with feel than complexity.

Oakland's High on Fire are one of the defining forces in American doom and sludge, built on Matt Pike's mythological vision and the kind of riff density that makes everything around it feel thin. Since reforming their presence in the early 2010s, they have remained one of the heaviest and most uncompromising bands on earth.

The name alone announces Eugene, Oregon's Hippie Death Cult as a band with a sense of humor about the stoner doom genre they clearly love. Since 2019 they've delivered fuzz-caked, psychedelic doom that is simultaneously self-aware and genuinely heavy.

New Hampshire's Hobo Wizard conjure doom and stoner metal with the kind of grim, scrappy personality their name implies — heavy, slow, and unconcerned with refinement. The project, active since 2022, sounds like it was assembled from salvaged parts and is better for it.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee's Hooch Head blend stoner metal's hazy warmth with sludge metal's corrosive weight, arriving in 2018 with the sound of cheap liquor and busted amplifiers. Tennessee grime runs deep in every track.

From Peterborough, New Hampshire, Hookermouth have been crafting grimy stoner-sludge metal since 2014, leaning into fuzz-saturated grooves and a stubbornly filthy aesthetic. Not much subtlety, and none is required.