Named for the fallen angel of concealment, Charleston, South Carolina's Gadreel emerged in 2025 at the intersection of black metal's cold fury and doom's crushing desolation.

Elizabeth, New Jersey's Galare have been practicing austere, uncompromising black metal since 2015 — cold, stripped-back, and indifferent to trends.

Out of Allegany, New York, Galdranaht emerged in 2022 with a raw black metal sound rooted in isolation and ritual — spare, unadorned, and true to the genre's adversarial origins.

Grand Chute, Wisconsin's Gale have been carving out a space in the American black metal underground since 2014, their sound as grey and cutting as a Midwestern winter.

Long Beach, California's Galena forge their sound from the corrosive intersection of black metal and sludge, a combination that trades atmosphere for abrasion. Active since 2016.

An Oregon atmospheric black metal project born in 2025, Galewight pursue the melodic, sweeping end of the genre — vast, windswept compositions that favor texture and mood over brutality.

Whittier, California's Galicia merge black and death metal into something uncompromising and direct — no atmospheric softening, just raw extremity from a band that formed in 2021.

Hailing from the old frontier town of Deadwood, South Dakota, Gallow Cult deal in a corrosive blend of black and death metal built on punishment and atmosphere. Formed in 2017, their music carries the bleak weight of the American frontier filtered through extreme metal's most uncompromising traditions.

Salt Lake City's Gallowbraid weave melodic black metal with folk sensibilities, conjuring vast, lonesome landscapes through sweeping guitar work and raw intensity. Active since 2010, they stand among the more distinctive voices in the American atmospheric black metal underground.

There's a fitting darkness to a black metal band forming in Salem, Massachusetts — and Gallows, active since 2021, leans into that cursed history with cold, uncompromising riffs and bleak atmosphere. Their music feels native to the witch-trial soil it grew from.

A Texas project merging ambient texture with raw black metal hostility, Gallows Throne have cultivated a distinctly isolationist sound since 2014. The combination of vast atmospheric passages and icy aggression marks them as one of the state's more adventurous black metal acts.

Named for the fearsome medieval Gaelic-Norse mercenary warriors, Texas's Gallóglaigh arrived in 2025 with a black metal ferocity that lives up to the legacy. Still in their earliest chapter, they signal ambition in both name and sound.

Boston's Gamaliel tear through black and speed metal with a reckless, fire-and-brimstone energy that fits the city's long history of aggressive underground acts. Since 2016 they've been among the more ferocious presences in the Massachusetts extreme metal scene.

New Jersey's Gangr emerged in 2023 with a stark black metal approach that favors atmosphere and malevolence over accessibility. Still early in their existence, they carry the project-style intensity common to the current US black metal underground.

Named for the King of Evil himself, Escondido, California's Gannondorf have been playing raw, uncompromising black metal since 2010 with the single-minded ferocity their namesake would demand. Over a decade into their existence, they remain a committed presence in the Southern California underground.