San Antonio's Devilvvorshipper have been crafting unrelenting black metal since 2021, operating from the fertile and increasingly dark underground that the city has cultivated. Their approach is orthodox and unsparing — atmosphere built from cold tremolo, raw production, and unwavering devotion to the genre's bleakest traditions.

Ocean City, New Jersey's Devotee have been practicing cold, unadorned black metal since 2018 — a striking contrast to the boardwalk resort town they call home. Their work draws on the genre's most austere traditions, finding bleakness in an unlikely coastal setting.

Los Angeles' Devourer of Light have been forging black/death metal in the sprawling underground of Southern California since 2017. Their sound is dense and punishing, combining the technical impulses of death metal with the cold atmosphere of black metal into something that feels genuinely threatening.

Portland, Washington's Devouring Serpent emerged in 2020 with a black/death metal sound that suits the Pacific Northwest's grey skies and dense forests. Their approach favors atmosphere and aggression in equal measure, channeling something genuinely feral out of the region's rich extreme metal tradition.

Portland, Oregon's Diabolic Oath have been conjuring black/death metal in the Pacific Northwest underground since 2018. Their sound traffics in the most merciless intersection of both genres — cavernous production, blasting tempos, and a total disregard for comfort or accessibility.

California's Dick Wolf have been navigating the space between raw black metal and post-black metal's more atmospheric impulses since 2012. Their sound resists easy categorization — bleak but textured, aggressive but willing to breathe, operating comfortably in the margins between the genre's orthodox and experimental wings.

Bellingham, Washington's Dioghaltas — whose name means "vengeance" in Scottish Gaelic — have been crafting black metal since 2020 in the rain-soaked corner of the Pacific Northwest where the Cascade foothills meet Puget Sound. Their music carries the linguistic weight of the old world set against a landscape that demands its own dark mythology.

Greensburg, Indiana's Dis have been wielding black/death metal in the rural Midwest since 2018, an unlikely setting that only sharpens the isolation and fury in their sound. There is something fitting about extreme metal emerging from small-town Indiana — it sounds like it has nowhere else to go.

Dark, grim black/thrash from Houston with crustpunk and doom influences. Released Under Grim Skies in 2022.