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Bay Area shoegaze known for concrete-thick guitars.

Texas quartet — Deftones-heavy shoegaze with grunge marrow.

Nick Quan, known professionally as Quannnic, is an American musician. Initially presenting a digicore sound, they began releasing music as Quannnic in late 2020 and released their debut studio album, Kenopsia, in February 2022. A track from the album, "Life Imitates Life", unexpectedly went viral on TikTok and charted on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs. Quannnic's second studio album, Stepdream, was released in November 2023, and they later co-headlined an American tour with Jane Remover. Their third album, Warbrained, was released in August 2025. On Quannnic's musical style, sources mostly described it as shoegaze, with Kenopsia mixing glitch elements and Stepdream emo.

Philly post-hardcore expats who traded blast beats for wall-of-fuzz.

Cloakroom is an American rock band from Chesterton, Indiana. Formed in 2012, by members of various emo revival bands, they released their debut EP Infinity through Run for Cover Records in 2013. The label soon released the band's debut album Further Out (2015), which helped to broaden the emo revival's sonic landscape, by incorporating elements of shoegaze, grunge and slowcore. Their following two albums Time Well (2017) and Dissolution Wave (2022), were released through Relapse Records, and saw the band shift their sound closer to metal. Their fourth album Last Leg of the Human Table (2025) was released by Closed Casket Activities.

Vein.fm side-project pulling nu-metal into shoegaze light.