Out of Baton Rouge since 2016, Golgor practice black metal with the swampy density of the Louisiana underground — raw production, corrosive atmospherics, and an intensity that feels genuinely hostile rather than performative.

Blasphemous Black Metal from Spring/Houston.

Spring, Texas's Golgotha have occupied the black metal underground since 2005, keeping their sound steeped in the genre's bleakest traditions while remaining a persistent presence in the Texas extreme scene.

Covington, Georgia's Gomorrah have been burning black metal's cold fire since 2015, channeling the namesake city's annihilation into ferocious tremolo-driven compositions that favor atmosphere as much as sheer aggression.

Experimental/post-black metal with chiptune elements from Dallas.

A fresh 2024 project trading in blackened death metal, Gore Filled Cemetery lean into grim imagery with a sound that matches — blurred riffs, icy atmosphere, and the kind of low-budget menace that suits the genre best.

San Antonio's Gothenbvrg take depressive black metal's most isolationist impulses and filter them through Texas heat since 2018 — spelling the city name in archaic script signals exactly the kind of grim romanticism the music embodies.

Pennsylvania's Grabesruhe — a German word for the silence of the grave — crafts raw black metal draped in lo-fi menace and cold isolation. Since 2019 the project has pursued the bleakest end of the underground with uncompromising hostility.

One of the longer-standing names in New Jersey's black metal underground, Grafvolluth has been conjuring cold, misanthropic darkness from Toms River since 2004. Two decades of persistence have sharpened their craft into something deliberately severe.

Minneapolis black metal project Gramarye takes its name from an archaic word for occult knowledge, and the music lives up to that etymology — layered, incantatory, and dense with atmosphere. Active since 2020, they mine the grimmer traditions of the genre without losing an otherworldly sense of space.

Out of Altoona, Pennsylvania, Grampian arrived in 2022 with a black metal sound rooted in geographic isolation and compositional austerity. There's a rugged, unadorned quality to what they do that suits the working-class landscape they come from.

Bergenfield, New Jersey's Granuloma pursue the atmospheric and post-black metal strains of the genre with textural density and emotional weight. Since 2018 they've constructed a sound that festers slowly, like the tissue condition they're named after.

Santa Maria, California's Grave Command barrel through thrash, black metal, and crossover with tactical precision, treating genre boundaries as obstacles to be overrun. Their 2018 formation has produced a project as combative as it is purposefully chaotic.

Palo Alto's Graveborn have been forging blackened death metal out of the unlikely terrain of Silicon Valley since 2013, their sound a deliberate negation of the region's sterile optimism. Cold and merciless, they channel the tradition of extreme fusion with focused, technical precision.

Pennsylvania's Gravecrawler drag themselves through the subterranean depths of old-school death metal with genuine menace. Active since 2021, they move through the mire with the patient, rotting momentum the name implies.