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.

A solo atmospheric black metal project based in Bend, Oregon, Ulg emerged in 2024 with an approach rooted in desolate landscapes and wintry introspection. The high desert of central Oregon makes for an apt backdrop to this kind of windswept, reverb-drenched darkness.

Asheville, North Carolina's Urocyon emerged in 2022 with an atmospheric black metal sound shaped by the ancient, fog-wrapped terrain of the Southern Appalachians. Named after the gray fox, they carry a feral, nature-rooted quality that runs through every song.

Named for the cursed valley outside Jerusalem, Chicago's Valley of Hinnom weave atmospheric black metal and post-metal into sprawling, grief-laden soundscapes. Since 2014, they've built an expansive sound where desolation and grandeur are inseparable.

Vattnet Viskar — Swedish for "the water is whispering" — formed in Plaistow, New Hampshire in 2010 and played atmospheric black metal that incorporated post-rock dynamics and shoegaze texture alongside conventional black metal extremity. Their debut full-length Sky Swallower (2013) was followed by Settler (2015) on Century Media Records, which expanded the band's sonic palette into more expansive, melodic territory. The band renamed themselves Vattnet in 2016 and released a final self-titled album in 2017 before disbanding.

Formed in 2017 in Eagle, Colorado, Void Alchemy work within atmospheric black metal's wide canvas — long-form compositions that let texture and space do as much work as riffs, building toward moments of overwhelming density before pulling back into something quieter and more contemplative. The Colorado mountains are an unavoidable frame of reference here, vast and indifferent in the way the best atmospheric black metal tends to feel. They're a project concerned with creating sustained emotional environments rather than simply piling on extremity.