Named for the mythological passage of true dreams, New York's Gate of Horn weave together sludge, stoner, and doom into a hazy, lumbering mass that feels ancient and psychedelic at once. Active since 2014, they remain one of the more atmospheric acts in the tri-state heavy underground.

New York's Girder build their stoner doom sound like heavy construction — methodical, load-bearing, and made to last. Formed in 2025, they're among the newest entrants to the northeast's already formidable heavy underground.

New York's Goatsmoke traffic in the hazy, bone-heavy intersection of stoner and doom, where riffs unspool slowly and the fuzz never fully dissipates. Formed in 2022, they've already developed a sound that feels comfortably lived-in and oppressively thick.

Brooklyn's Grass take the stoner metal template and run it through New York City noise and nervous energy, ending up somewhere perpetually hazy and unresolved. A different beast from their Philly namesake, they've been tilling that fertile sonic ground since 2016.

Brooklyn's Green Hog Band blend psychedelic rock, stoner riffing, and doom-paced heaviness into something loose-limbed and groove-driven. Since 2020 they've been staking out the cosmic, smoke-hazed intersection of those worlds in New York City's underground.