New York City black metal stalwarts with six releases since 2012. Their catalog — including splits with Forest of Tygers and the full-length Exegeses — establishes them as one of the key voices in NYC's thriving black metal underground, blending urban intensity with atmospheric depth.

Boulder Creek black metal project from the California underground.

Pawnee, Illinois black metal project whose 2015 debut Sobrwydd a Disgyblaeth — Welsh for 'sobriety and discipline' — channels Celtic mythology from the flatlands of central Illinois. An unexpected marriage of Brythonic folklore and American underground black metal.

Death metal project of unknown origin whose 2012 debut them strips the genre to its barest essentials. Lowercase title, no location, no biography — just destruction.

Chicago black metal project whose albums Ghanima and MMXIX reveal a Dune-obsessed sensibility — Ghanima being a central character in Frank Herbert's saga. Atmospheric black metal filtered through science fiction's greatest worldbuilding, a combination that feels uniquely Chicagoan.

Black metal project that originated in Fort Myers, Florida before relocating to Nashville. Their two EPs — Absolute Stillness and Thanatophobia — explore the aesthetics of death and silence, the Gulf Coast origins lending a humid, oppressive quality unusual for the genre.

Phoenix black metal project from the Arizona underground.

Iowa black metal project.

Easton, Maryland black metal project with five releases since 2014. Their catalog — from early raw works to the more polished Influencing Machine in 2024 — traces a decade of evolution from the Eastern Shore, an unlikely outpost for atmospheric black metal on the Chesapeake Bay.