Milwaukee's Threnody deal in atmospheric black metal, weaving bleak, expansive soundscapes from the flat midwestern darkness — a project that has been unfolding since 2012 with a cold, meditative intensity.

Throne of the Black Moon emerged from Spokane, Washington in 2019 with a focus on atmospheric black metal, layering dense tremolo passages and cavernous ambience to evoke the isolation of the inland Pacific Northwest. The band leans into the post-black metal tradition of blending harsh, raw black metal with expansive, cinematic textures.

Minneapolis atmospheric black metal project Toska layers gothic atmosphere and melodic desolation over black metal's cold architecture, drawing on the Russian concept of inexpressible longing to color their emotionally dense sound.

Newark, Delaware's Traumatic Serenity work in the atmospheric black metal tradition, combining the genre's misanthropic intensity with sweeping, expansive textures since forming in 2020 in one of the East Coast's smaller but active underground scenes.

Baltimore atmospheric black metal and ambient project Trhä emerged in 2020 as a deeply solitary exercise in icy, cavernous sound — the kind of music that feels less performed than summoned. With no fixed state listing and a minimal footprint, Trhä cultivates an air of deliberate obscurity that suits the bleakness of the style.

Tristhet is a Detroit band formed in 2014 that fuses atmospheric black metal with folk elements, incorporating melodic passages and earthy textures into an otherwise grim and wintry sound.

California atmospheric black metal project formed in 2025, building vast, expansive soundscapes from cold tremolo-picked guitar and sweeping ambience in the genre's most meditative tradition.

Tvær is an atmospheric black metal project from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2017, crafting expansive and coldly textured soundscapes rooted in the USBM tradition of the upper Midwest.

Twilight Fauna is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Johnson City, Tennessee, formed in 2013, weaving Appalachian folk sensibilities into sparse, nature-saturated black metal that evokes the bleakness of the rural American South.