Santa Cruz, California doom and sludge trio that has been cultivating slow, toxic heaviness since 2017, combining the crushing weight of doom with stoner haze and sludge's abrasive edge. Their Bandcamp handle hints at a UK-influenced atmosphere despite their West Coast roots.

Tvsk is a stoner metal band from Alameda, California, formed in 2015, built on psychedelic-tinged heavy riffing anchored in the Bay Area's heavy underground scene.

Tyrannosaurus Dimension is an Oakland, California progressive and stoner metal band formed in 2020, fusing the heavy psychedelic riff-worship of stoner metal with complex progressive song structures and a cosmic sensibility.

Southern California's Velvet Merlin conjure stoner and doom metal from the sun-bleached coast of San Clemente, where fuzz tones and heavy grooves seem as natural as the Pacific breeze. Founded in 2020, they balance psych-tinged weightlessness with riff-first heaviness.

Corona, California's Vitreous Earth has been plying stoner-doom's slow-burning Southern California wavelength since 2018, crafting music that favors haze, weight, and prolonged riff meditation over any urgency whatsoever. Their sound is rooted in the Inland Empire's sun-scorched geography — heavy and unhurried, like pavement expanding in July heat.

A very recent arrival from Santa Cruz, California, Witch Whores of Satan formed in 2024 and lean into the fuzz-soaked stoner doom aesthetic with a name that signals absolutely no interest in subtlety. Santa Cruz's countercultural coastal identity feeds naturally into their hazy, riff-forward approach. Still in their earliest days, they are already carving out space in the California underground with pure heaviness.