Oakland doom and sludge outfit channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of heavy, slow, and punishing music. Their sound is thick and oppressive, built on feedback-drenched low-end devastation.

Instrumental doom and psychedelic metal band from San Diego formed around 2012, building slow, heavy soundscapes with a largely wordless approach to the genre. Their debut release Razorleaf (2014) captured the band's hazy, riff-driven sound recorded at The Continental Garage in Escondido.

San Francisco's Cult of the Cosmic Bong are a fully instrumental doom trio who trade in psychedelic weight, wringing hypnotic, heavy riffs from guitar, bass, and drums without ever reaching for a vocal hook. Their 2025 album The Relentless Engine of Creation distills their approach to creative, immersive, riff-centric music.

Sacramento's Cura Cochino — Spanish for 'dirty priest' — are a husband-and-wife doom act whose morbid, Black Sabbath-rooted sound is transported into Baja California when vocalist Priscila sings in Spanish and unleashes grito Mexicano howls over grinding, funeral-weight riffs. Their doom en español is something singular in the American metal landscape.