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.

Hailing from Normal, Illinois, Garg deals in raw, no-frills black metal that embraces the underground's most primitive and unpolished instincts. Formed in 2022, they work in the stripped-back style that prioritizes atmosphere through harshness over any kind of technical refinement.

Connecticut's Gargamel marries symphonic grandeur to black metal extremity, building elaborate, orchestral arrangements atop a still-venomous core. The project has been active since 2010, amassing a catalog that tilts theatrical without abandoning its harder impulses.

Springfield, Illinois outfit Gargantuan merges the atmosphere of black metal with the pummeling density of death metal into a sound that's as expansive as its name implies. Since 2019 they've built a reputation in the Illinois underground for uncompromising extremity.