Abominate is a black and death metal band from Pennsylvania. Active since 2011, the band has released an EP and a full-length, with 2020's "A rotten mind becomes violent" delivering eleven tracks of blackened death metal hostility.

Sellersville, Pennsylvania sludge metal project. The name's assault on the senses — sharp stench of decomposition — captures sludge's essence.

Pittsburgh sludge metal project whose 2023 self-titled debut wallows in the kind of slow, agonizing heaviness the Steel City specializes in. The name is truth in advertising — this is music designed to crush.

Quakertown sludge metal project from the Pennsylvania underground.

Philadelphia power-violence and grindcore trio who describe their music as Eternal Microbursts of Electric Power, releasing a string of EPs and split 7-inches including records with Nimbus Terrifix and Chainsaw to the Face alongside albums such as Primordial Paranoia and Psychic Rot.

Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.

Philadelphia's Cave Weta build massive post-metal structures from sludge-soaked riffs, channeling the patient heaviness of Neurosis and Isis into slow-burning, emotionally corrosive soundscapes.

Brutal death metal band from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, delivering the genre's characteristic combination of blast beats, guttural vocals, and heavily downtuned riffing.

Philadelphia's Chemical God trudges through the murky intersection of doom, sludge, and stoner metal with monolithic, fuzz-soaked riffs and a hypnotic low-end rumble. Their music worships at the altar of heaviness.