Toledo, Ohio doom metal act Tomorrow arrived in 2025, entering a storied Midwestern heavy music tradition with a sound that leans into slow tempos, heavy riffing, and the genre's characteristic sense of weight and inevitability.

Hamilton, Ohio funeral doom outfit Torture Wheel have been grinding out some of the genre's most punishing slow-motion heaviness since 2005, favoring glacial tempos and suffocating atmospheres that put them squarely in the tradition of the genre's bleakest practitioners.

Columbus, Ohio's Traitors Return to Earth have been sinking deep into stoner-sludge-doom's tar pit heaviness since 2011, layering fuzz and feedback over glacial tempos and a persistent sense of weighted despair.

Twin Scar is a black/doom metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2025, combining the icy malevolence of black metal with the glacial, despairing tempos of doom metal into a dark and suffocating sound.

Two Tons is a doom and sludge metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2025, emerging from a city with deep roots in underground heavy music to deliver slow, crushing compositions that draw equally from funeral doom and sludge traditions.

Formed in Akron, Ohio in 2022, Witch Dagger deal in the slow, heavy currency of stoner doom — thick riffs dragged through tar pits and left to bake in the Rust Belt sun. Still a young outfit, they have wasted little time establishing a sound rooted in the low-end traditions of Sleep and Electric Wizard. Akron's industrial grit seeps into every plodding, fuzz-drenched note.

Kent, Ohio's Witchhelm have been hauling heavy doom and stoner riffs since 2014, working in the warm, fuzz-drenched tradition that owes as much to Black Sabbath as to the later stoner metal wave. Kent and the surrounding Northeast Ohio area have a quiet but real heavy music tradition, and Witchhelm are among its most committed representatives. Their sound is patient and immersive — music built for volume.

Columbus, Ohio outfit Wurm Sun fuse the crawling weight of doom metal with the abrasive filth of sludge, conjuring a suffocating heaviness that feels born from the industrial grimness of the Midwest. Active since 2022, their sound prioritizes atmosphere and oppressive volume over speed.