San Diego's Call of the Wild blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal with hard rock into a thick, riff-driven sound that has been rolling since 2020.

Oakland doom trio known for their crushingly slow tempos and occult-tinged heaviness, drawing on traditional doom and death-doom influences to build dense, hypnotic walls of misery.

Hayward, California funeral doom solo project delivering crushingly slow, organ-tinged dirges in the Lovecraftian tradition, with a vicious yet mournful sonic weight.

Catapult-Collision is a young Modesto outfit playing heavy, slow-burning doom metal built on crushing low-tuned riffs and a suffocating sense of dread. Even as a recent formation, their approach reaches back to the genre's foundational bleakness.

Los Angeles avant-doom outfit blending post-rock, sludge metal, and keyboard-driven atmosphere, prioritizing organ and synth over guitars to create a uniquely sorrowful, minimalist doom sound.

Los Angeles sci-fi doom trio whose debut channels the analog grit of Sleep and Monolord into dystopian, riff-heavy slow-burn doom with DIY ethics and a futuristic conceptual bent.

Cessation is a San Diego, California funeral doom metal band crafting extraordinarily slow, grief-laden compositions built on crushing low-end riffs and bleak, suffocating atmosphere. Their work sits at the extreme end of the doom spectrum, prioritizing heaviness and despair over accessibility.

Cetacean is a Los Angeles, California doom and sludge metal band building massive, slow-moving compositions out of grinding riffs and oppressive low-end heaviness. Their sound evokes the oceanic enormity suggested by their name, blending Southern-inflected sludge with crushing doom.

San Francisco, California act Chainsaw Zombie weave together black metal, death metal, and doom metal into a dark, mid-paced assault drawing from the Bay Area's extreme metal history. The death-doom elements slow their attack and add a sepulchral heaviness.