Brooklyn's Clothesline draw on doom, stoner rock, and wrestling-fueled attitude from a lineup featuring members of Reign of Zaius and End of Hope. Their slow-burn approach captures the grimy, unhurried heaviness of the New York underground.

New York's Clouds Taste Satanic are a fully instrumental post-doom unit that blends stoner rock, psychedelia, and Bongripper-style heaviness into extended, hypnotic compositions. Active since 2013 and releasing prolifically, including a 2026 live-in-studio album through Kinda Like Music, they've become one of Brooklyn's most distinctive doom exports.

Brooklyn's Clovis play a wall-of-sound doom and stoner rock blend steeped in grunge and classic heavy riffing. Their self-titled LP documents a band content to let the volume speak for itself.

Rochester doom and stoner metal duo crafting slow, heavy dirges drenched in fuzz and atmosphere. Their riffs move like slow-rolling thunder, built for maximum weight.

New York death doom band that moves between sepulchral dirges and bursts of death metal aggression. Their songs carry real emotional weight, steeped in despair and murky heaviness.

New York doom and sludge act that wallows in oppressive tempos and dense, distorted heaviness. Their sound sits at the intersection of grief and fury, slow-burning and suffocating.

Queens, New York black and doom metal act weaving frigid, dissonant riffs together with suffocating, slow-moving passages in a sound that's as bleak as it is hypnotically heavy.

Buffalo death-doom and groove metal band pulling from multiple heavy subgenres to craft dense, lurching compositions. They sit at a bleak crossroads where different strains of heaviness collide.

Long Island husband-and-wife duo Cult of Herodias craft deeply immersive funeral doom anchored by Kristina Rocco's sweeping classical vocals and suffocating, slow-motion arrangements. Active since 2012, the Holbrook outfit fuses experimental doom with a liturgical atmosphere that makes each release feel like a prolonged, mournful ceremony.