Clearwater, Florida's Shiver have been serving up heavy, fuzz-soaked stoner metal since 2013, drawing on the peculiar tension between Florida's sun-drenched geography and the genre's slow, narcotic heaviness to craft a distinctly hazy, psychedelic sound.

Orlando, Florida sludge and stoner metal band active since 2010, locking into slow, tar-thick grooves and feedback-laden heaviness with the swampy persistence that Florida's humid underground breeds. Their name alone signals the kind of bleakly humorous, road-worn vibe their music inhabits.

Skeletizer is a stoner/doom metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 2026 and already carving out space in a Florida metal underground better known for death metal than slow, hazy heaviness. Their sound draws from the fuzz-drenched, riff-worshipping traditions of Electric Wizard and Sleep, transplanted to Florida heat.

Pensacola, Florida stoner and doom metal band formed in 2013, named with wry humor and built on the bedrock of heavy, slow-burning fuzz riffs and psychedelic grooves of the Gulf Coast underground.

Smoke Mountain is a stoner and doom metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 2017, channeling thick, hazy guitar tones and lethargic tempos into heavy, weed-ritual doom with a southern flair.

Tallahassee, Florida doom and stoner metal band formed in 2013, blending hazy psychedelic riffs with lumbering sludge tempos in the tradition of Southern fuzz-doom.

Space Weed are a stoner/sludge metal band from Cape Canaveral, Florida, formed in 2021. Their name and location lean into the cosmic joke of launching heavy, slow-burning riffs from the shadow of NASA's launch facilities on the Space Coast.