South Bend, Indiana black/death metal project. The corvid-themed name — a 'murder' by another word — channels dark omens from the home of Notre Dame.

Phoenix, Arizona black metal project. The tropical ecosystem name contrasts sharply with the Sonoran Desert setting — perhaps longing for the cool, misty habitats that exist only in imagination here.

Los Angeles black metal project whose name reads like a Japanese horror film premise. Supernatural dread reflected back from the City of Angels.

Boston black metal project named after parasitic jawless fish. The revolting, primordial imagery channels New England's dark maritime history.

Jersey City, New Jersey black metal project. The industrial imagery of artificial light in the shadow of Manhattan adds urban dimension to black metal's darkness.

Oklahoma black metal project. The name's melancholy — a life erased from memory — channels the Great Plains' vastness into atmospheric isolation.

Tallahassee, Florida black metal project inverting the deus ex machina concept. Instead of divine intervention solving problems, divinity itself emerges from technology.

Seattle black metal project. The philosophical name poses the ultimate question of identity — divine or alien, sacred or strange.

A Grave for Small Birds is a black metal project from Seattle, Washington, debuting in 2024 with two releases totaling 12 tracks. With titles like "Social Anxiety at a Christmas Party" and "New Years Eve. New Years Day," the project channels deeply personal, introspective themes through raw black metal. The band brings an emotionally candid, almost diaristic quality to the Pacific Northwest black metal tradition.

Florida black metal project. The name captures the genre's essential despair — crying out into a void that offers no comfort.

Tampa/Tucson black metal and death metal project spanning Florida and Arizona. The name evokes solstice rituals in two of America's hottest cities — seeking cold in the desert and the tropics.

A Portrait of Flesh and Blood is a symphonic and depressive black metal project from Los Angeles, California. Their 2015 full-length "The Pale Enchantress" weaves orchestral grandeur with raw black metal despair across seven tracks of atmospheric extremity.

A Sow of Violence is a symphonic and atmospheric black metal project from New England. Since their 2022 debut EP "Chaos Breeds Beauty," the project has expanded rapidly, releasing a second EP and the full-length "Abyssal" in 2025, layering orchestral textures over ferocious black metal foundations.

Tucson, Arizona black metal project channeling Carpathian vampire mythology through desert heat. Romanian horror reimagined in the American Southwest.

A.I.D.S. is a black metal band originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana and later based in Casper, Wyoming. Active since 2004, the band has released three full-lengths and a demo spanning nearly two decades of raw, uncompromising black metal, from early lo-fi provocations to the more refined assault of 2022's "MALEFICUS SABBATUM."