Jacksonville doom/sludge duo Count the Dead play with the kind of bleak economy that the genres demand — slow riffs, heavy hearts, no excess. Their Florida roots add a sun-bleached desolation to the characteristic sludge murk.

Miami doom and sludge outfit dragging Southern heaviness through the swampy heat of South Florida. Their music is slow, crushing, and suffocating — built for maximum punishment.

Gainesville, Florida's Crystal Balls fuse black metal fury with crushing doom tempos, creating a suffocating atmosphere unique to the Sunshine State underground. Their music is cold and unrelenting.

Ocala, Florida's Cultellarii are a female-fronted doom outfit whose sludgy, pitch-black sound draws on Cathedral, Celtic Frost, and Type O Negative to explore themes of gender dysphoria and institutional oppression. Their 2013 album Black Urth Cabal makes clear they are as interested in lyrical weight as they are in gravitational heaviness.