Folsom, California's Fables have been pushing experimental black metal into strange new territory since 2004, bending the genre's frozen aggression toward unconventional structures and unsettling atmospheres.

Out of Ashtabula, Ohio, Face Rot have been running blackened grindcore since 2013 — short, vicious songs that swap grind's antisocial energy for a colder, more nihilistic black metal atmosphere.

Long Island's Faceless Hatred have been running a blackened thrash and crust hybrid since 2011, pulling equally from the filth of d-beat and the cold aggression of black metal.

Twin Falls, Idaho's Faces of Annihilation have been combining blackened death metal and deathcore since 2018, a rural Pacific Northwest act pushing extreme metal in an unlikely location.

Stanley, North Dakota's Fade into Obscurity formed in 2024, bringing raw black metal from one of the most remote corners of the American underground — isolation rendered in frost and tremolo.

A Rhode Island black metal outfit active since 2009, Faded Grave channels the raw, stripped-down misanthropy of the American underground with a sound more obsessed with atmosphere and dread than technical display.

Formed in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2024, Faded Memories works in the depressive black metal tradition — slow, suffocating, and deeply personal, built around the genre's hallmark of turning inner anguish into cold, minimalist noise.

California's Faerhaaven is among the newest names on this list, formed in 2025, and their fantasy-tinged name hints at a black metal sound drawn toward the atmospheric and the otherworldly rather than straight aggression.

Fort Lauderdale's Faethom has been one of South Florida's more ambitious metal acts since 2011, fusing black metal's cold intensity with progressive structures and traditional heavy metal muscle into something distinctly their own.

New York's FaFo is a fresh-formed black/death metal act that arrived in 2025 with an unambiguous name and an equally direct approach: punishing extremity without apology, rooted in the rawest currents of both parent genres.

Chicago's Fail to Enlighten formed in 2025 at the crossroads of black metal and hardcore — two worlds that collide in a specific kind of urban rage, and Chicago's long history of hardcore makes for fertile ground for that collision.

Location unknown but the music speaks plainly: Failure Ritual has been crafting atmospheric black metal since 2012 in the tradition of vast, desolate soundscapes that turn inward as much as they reach outward into the void.

Raleigh's Faith in Ashes has been one of North Carolina's more technically adventurous extreme metal bands since 2009, weaving black and death metal together through progressive structures that give their violence a sense of arc and intention.

Charleston, West Virginia's Fall Before Your Creator brings blackened deathcore's overwhelming density to Appalachia since 2011, fusing the extremity of black and death metal with the breakdown-driven structure of deathcore into something unrelenting.

Portland's Fallen Choir arrived in 2023 at the meeting point of symphonic ambition and black metal ferocity, a combination that suits Oregon's atmospheric, dramatic landscape. Sweeping orchestration and raw black metal intensity collide in their sound, creating something cinematic and savage in equal measure.