Venomous Black Metal from Dallas.

Redwood City, California's Disruption emerged in 2022 as part of a new wave of West Coast black metal practitioners, carving their niche from the Bay Area's fertile underground. Young but focused, they approach the genre with the cold, abrasive conviction that black metal demands, drawing on Northern California's increasingly active extreme metal scene.

Baltimore's Distend emerged in 2020 at the intersection of black metal's raw hostility and post-black metal's atmospheric expansiveness, channeling the grit and mood of a city with a serious underground pedigree. Their post-black metal lean brings texture and space to the tremolo-and-blast template, a natural fit for a scene that's never been shy about pushing at genre boundaries.

Santa Fe, New Mexico's Distorted Evil fuse black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's driving aggression, a blackened thrash approach that suits the high desert isolation their hometown provides. Formed in 2022, they've leaned into the raw, rehearsal-tape energy that makes the subgenre's best material feel genuinely dangerous rather than polished into submission.

San Diego's DitchWitch have been dealing in raw black metal and noise since 2018, embracing the lo-fi, corrosive aesthetic that puts atmosphere and hostility above production clarity. In a city known for its more polished metal output, DitchWitch carve out a genuinely abrasive corner — primitive, unrelenting, and indifferent to comfort.

Roseville, Michigan's Divinationist emerged in 2020 fusing black metal's bleakness with death metal's carnality, inhabiting the fertile no-man's-land where both genres' most uncompromising qualities amplify each other. Michigan's extreme metal underground has long produced bands willing to work this territory, and Divinationist continue that lineage.

Colorado Springs' Divine Hubris have been pursuing an uncompromising black metal vision since 2021, drawing creative energy from the high altitude and arid bleakness of one of Colorado's most culturally idiosyncratic cities. Their name suggests a kind of defiant grandeur, and their black metal reflects that tension between ambition and nihilism.

Houston black metal. Albums include Saeculum Obscura and Aeon Cosmic Death.

Blasphemous Black Metal from Laredo.