Rochester, New York sludge and stoner metal band founded in 2011, channeling down-tuned riffs and slow, crushing grooves reminiscent of the Southern sludge tradition.

New York sludge metal band formed in 2021, building dense, feedback-laden walls of sound rooted in the slow, oppressive heaviness central to the sludge tradition.

Somnuri are a Brooklyn, New York sludge metal trio formed in 2017, channeling the heavy, abrasive energy of sludge metal through a dense and riff-forward approach that has earned them recognition in New York's heavy underground.

SOT is a New York sludge, doom, and hardcore hybrid band formed in 2011, fusing the oppressive heaviness of sludge and doom metal with the confrontational energy of hardcore punk.

St. Bastard is a Brooklyn-based sludge and doom metal band formed in 2015, combining the slow, crushing weight of doom with sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-drenched heaviness.

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Sun Black Smoke is a stoner/sludge metal band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 2013, built on massive, haze-soaked riffs and a thick, abrasive low-end that reflects the industrial grit of their home city.

Sludge metal band from Syracuse, New York, formed in 2020, dealing in slow, crushing riffs and abrasive dynamics characteristic of the post-Southern sludge tradition.

Buffalo's Tar Bucket crawled out of the Erie lakeshore in 2024 with a sludge metal approach as dense and unmoving as their name implies. Still early in their existence, they traffic in slow-cooked punishment — downtuned guitars dragged through mud and distortion, the way only a city with winters that long could produce.