Washington state's GLA operate in the most unfiltered and deliberately lo-fi end of raw black metal, stripping the genre down to static, spite, and atmosphere. A 2022 project for those who want their black metal as abrasive as possible.

Baton Rouge's Glacial Coffin fuse black metal's cold hostility with death metal's crushing physicality, arriving at a sound that's both frozen and brutal at once. Since 2019, they've been one of Louisiana's most interesting extreme metal entries.

Denver's Glacial Tomb work in a devastating three-way collision of black, death, and sludge metal, and the result sounds like being buried under a collapsing mountain in the coldest possible winter. Formed in 2017, they're one of Colorado's most formidable extreme acts.

Portland, Oregon's Glacier revive the classic traditions of heavy and power metal with a reverence for melody, soaring vocals, and anthemic songwriting that feels earnest rather than nostalgic. Active since 2013, they're a bright light in the Pacific Northwest's heavier underground.

Raw, unpolished, and deliberately hostile, Glaive strips black metal back to its most primitive essentials — primitive tremolo lines, blizzard-blast drumming, and vocals dragged up from the frost. A project born in 2020 with no interest in compromise.

Lexington, Kentucky's Glass Coffin has been excavating the most frigid corners of black metal since 2014, building a sound that is both spectral and suffocating. There's a finality to their music that lives up to the name.

Out of Marshalltown, Iowa, Glass Ox forges a strange, compelling hybrid — black metal's cold hostility colliding with heavy metal swagger and a strong punk undercurrent. Since 2020 they've been one of the more ornery acts in the Midwest underground.

From the small town of Somerville, Tennessee, Glass Shrine has quietly cultivated a black metal sound built on atmosphere and sincerity since 2016. There's something devotional in their approach — fragile and fierce in equal measure.

Genre-defying Austin trio blending post-metal, black metal, sludge, and shoegaze. Signed to Pelagic Records.

Named for the Questing Beast of Arthurian legend — a creature heard but never fully seen — Bloomington, Indiana's Glatisant pursues depressive black metal into abstract, haunted spaces. Their music has the quality of something searching endlessly without resolution.

Drawing its name from the mythological binding that held the wolf Fenrir, California's Gleipner channels Norse themes into black metal that aims to restrain and overwhelm in equal measure. Founded in 2022, they bring a focused, mythologically charged darkness.

Santa Cruz's Gloam has been working the threshold between black and doom metal since 2012, building a sound as oppressive as coastal fog and twice as cold. They move slowly, deliberately, and with the kind of weight that stays with you.

Chicago's Gloamingwald translates to something like 'twilight forest,' and the band earns both halves of that name — their progressive black metal is shadowed and intricate, built from complex structures that still feel rooted in darkness. Formed in 2017, they're one of the Midwest's more intellectually ambitious black metal acts.

Memphis, Tennessee's Glorifying Dying channels black metal's nihilistic core with a directness that fits the city's long relationship with music made at the edge. Since 2015 they've been producing harsh, uncompromising black metal from the Deep South underground.

Glencoe, Missouri's Glorious Death has been pushing experimental black and death metal into unpredictable territory since 2014, willing to fracture structure and embrace dissonance in ways that make them stand apart from their more orthodox peers. The name is triumphant; the music is chaos.