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.

Born in the Bronx in 2016, Dark Knights of the Soul fuse heavy and doom metal into something that carries the weight of New York City's streets — slow-burning, massive, and spiritually bleak.

Buffalo's Darkapathy works the slow, suffocating intersection of death and doom metal, layering cavernous vocals over glacial riffs in a city whose long, brutal winters make the genre feel lived-in rather than theatrical, active since 2012.

Brooklyn's Deadzone collide doom, groove metal, and hardcore into something that sounds both crushed by urban weight and ready to erupt — fitting for a New York City band formed in 2016 with no patience for clean resolutions. Heavy, unpolished, and confrontational.

Ithaca's Decrement draw from the rich upstate New York heavy music tradition, weaving post-metal's expansive textures together with sludge's grinding heaviness and doom's glacial pace. Since 2018, they've built songs that collapse under their own weight — beautifully.

Brooklyn's Eggnogg has been doing something genuinely strange with doom metal since 2010 — psychedelic in the truest sense, dissolving the edges of heavy riffs into hazy, tripped-out ritual. An odd name for a band that is anything but ordinary.