Hudson, New York's Titanosaur are a stoner metal act formed in 2018, rooted in the slow-churning, fuzz-drenched riff traditions of the genre while drawing on the Hudson Valley's quieter, more pastoral surroundings as a counterpoint to their outsized heaviness.

Wilmington, North Carolina's Toke have been delivering fuzz-drenched, smoke-soaked sludge and stoner metal since 2015 — the kind of slow, heavy music made for maximum volume and minimal sobriety, built from the coastal South's laid-back heaviness.

Baltimore's Tombtoker are one of the more eclectic acts in the city's thriving underground, folding stoner metal's hazy weight into a death-doom foundation since 2018 to produce something heavy enough to flatten walls and smoky enough to cloud vision.

Dallas's Too Stoned bring a progressive dimension to stoner metal that sets them apart from the genre's more repetitive practitioners — extended structures, tonal experimentation, and the kind of psychedelic drift that rewards patient listening. Formed in 2020, they represent the Texas heavy underground's deep roots in riff worship and cosmic exploration.

Salt Lake City stoner metal veterans Top Dead Celebrity have been turning heads since 2009 with the kind of fuzz-drenched, downtuned riffing that thrives in Utah's arid, high-altitude air. Their longevity places them among the Mountain West's most established underground heavy acts.

Miami's Torche are one of the defining bands of the 2000s heavy underground, masterfully fusing sludge metal's density with melodic pop hooks and stoner fuzz to create music that is simultaneously crushing and oddly euphoric. Since 2005, they have built a body of work that has earned them devoted followings well outside the metal world.

New Orleans sludge metal band Totem draw on the city's legendary tradition of low-end heaviness, building slow-churning riff structures and oppressive grooves in the spirit of the Southern swamp metal the region has long exported.

Portland, Oregon's Towers deal in the lumbering, sun-scorched territory where sludge metal meets stoner rock, built on heavy amplifier worship, slow groove, and the kind of earth-moving low end that defines the Pacific Northwest's heavier underground.

Nestled in the mountains of Franconia, New Hampshire, Tractorass have been hauling stoner doom's slow, bludgeoning weight since 2004, blending fuzz-soaked riffs with the lethargic, oppressive atmosphere the genre does best.