.springofdrownedpanda. is a sludge metal project from Peekskill, New York, named after the cursed springs of Ranma 1/2. Active since 2009, the project's self-titled EP features five tracks of crushing sludge with absurdist titles referencing the anime's mythology. A 2021 follow-up single continued the theme, suggesting a project as devoted to its conceptual humor as to its crushing low-end.

137 is a sludge metal project that relocated from Petoskey, Michigan to the Rochester/Canandaigua area of New York, releasing an eight-track debut in 2024. The album features unconventional instrumentation — including bass clarinet — woven into a framework of crushing sludge. The project brings an experimental, avant-garde approach to heavy, distorted music.

Brooklyn sludge metal project. The name's visceral, stomachic imagery channels physical discomfort through crushing heaviness.

New York sludge metal project. Patriotic mortality rendered in crushing heaviness.

Wilmington, North Carolina's Baag traffics in the slow-moving punishment of doom and sludge metal, a project that has been carving out a heavy, feedback-drenched presence in the Southeast underground since 2018.

A New York sludge/doom outfit with industrial undercurrents active from 2008 to around 2013, releasing material through Seventh Rule Recordings and appearing on several early-2010s metal compilations.

Hailing from Watertown, New York, Cacus plays stoner and doom metal rooted in thick, mid-paced riffing and a hazy, amplifier-worshipping aesthetic.

Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.

A nascent doom and sludge outfit from Albany drawing on the slow, crushing weight of funeral doom paired with the corrosive grit of sludge, named after the legendary Arthurian dagger.