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.

Troy, New York's Dead Rabbits carry the Southern sludge and stoner metal tradition deep into the Northeast, delivering heavy, swamp-soaked grooves far from their genre's geographic home. Lumbering riffs and fuzz-thick tones anchor everything they do.

Troy, New York's Desintegrator arrived on the stoner metal scene in 2023, bringing the genre's fuzz-heavy, riff-centric approach to upstate New York's blue-collar post-industrial landscape. Their name captures the slow, dissolving quality of their music — heavyweight and hypnotic, built for extended trips rather than quick hits.

Levittown, New York's Dragons Bane have been trading in heavy, riff-centric stoner metal since 2013, built on the kind of thick, slow-rolling grooves that owe as much to Black Sabbath as to anything from the California desert scene. Long Island's working-class sensibility gives their sound a grounded, unflashy quality — they're more concerned with making rooms move than with cult-of-the-riff posturing.

Brooklyn's Eternal Black smoke out with skull-crushing riffs anchored in the doom and stoner traditions, their sound carrying the weight of New York City asphalt and late nights. Since 2015 they have been a fixture of the borough's heavy underground.

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.