Madison, Wisconsin's House of Lud have been stacking stoner and doom metal in equal measure since 2018, producing riffs that settle in like weather — slow-moving, overcast, and unavoidable. Their tone carries genuine weight.

Chicago's Hunters have been roaming the stoner-sludge terrain since 2011, combining hazy psychedelic drift with the kind of low-end punishment the Windy City's heavy underground specializes in. Thick, slow, and suffocating in the best sense.

Kansas City, Missouri stoner and sludge metal trio Hyborian formed in 2015, drawing their name and lyrical framework from Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age mythology. Their debut Hyborian Vol. I appeared on Season of Mist in 2017, followed by Vol. II in 2020, both records reflecting the influence of High on Fire, Mastodon, and Baroness in their dense, riff-driven approach. The band tours extensively in the American Midwest and Southeast, building their reputation through relentless live activity.

Salt Lake City's Hyde Park blend stoner, sludge, and doom into something ponderous and psychedelic since 2021, the high-altitude desert setting lending their sound an arid, expansive quality. Fuzz-drenched and unhurried.

Fresno's Hymns to the Stone move at the pace of sediment, layering stoner fuzz, sludge grime, and doom weight into slow-burning rituals of sound. Since 2014, they've treated heaviness as a meditative practice rather than a competition.

Rochester's stoner metal crew pilots a vessel loaded with fuzz-soaked riffs and woozy desert grooves, pulling hard on the tiller since 2015. Their sound sits somewhere between a bar-room strut and a narcotics-induced drift.

Boston's prolific stoner/doom shapeshifters have been churning out hazy, low-slung riff workouts since 2007, their psychedelic tendencies pulling the heavy blues toward realms both cosmic and oppressively earthbound.

Houston's Imp Tea brews stoner and doom metal into a slow, hazy concoction that reflects the city's humid lethargy — heavy enough to crush, loose enough to feel lived-in.

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