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.