Formed in Illinois in 2024, H.O.O.D. is a fresh entry into the American black metal underground, channeling icy, lo-fi hostility with a stripped-down ferocity characteristic of the genre's most uncompromising practitioners.

Named after a demon of transformation, Long Island's Haagenti began with melodic death metal roots before evolving into a heavier, more unrelenting death metal sound over their decade-plus existence. Their trajectory mirrors the demonic namesake — a gradual, deliberate shift into something darker.

Taking their name from the cold sea fog that rolls in off the North Sea, Haar is a U.S. black metal project that conjures a similarly bleak and suffocating atmosphere. Active since 2010, they trade in the kind of desolate, windswept darkness that recalls the genre's Scandinavian origins.

Marietta, Georgia's Haborym traffics in the raw intersection of black and death metal, bearing the name of a duke of hell and emerging in 2024 with a fittingly malevolent sound. Expect no mercy and no polish.

Atlanta's Hackenschmied is a freshly minted raw black metal project, born in 2025 and committed to the genre's most primitive and abrasive aesthetic. Little studio gloss, maximum sonic hostility.

Columbus, Ohio's Hadak Ura is one of the more unorthodox acts to emerge from the Midwest's extreme metal scene — a grinding black metal project that fuses the frozen hatred of black metal with the frenetic velocity of grindcore since 2015.

Milwaukee's Hadak Ura operates in the atmospheric and ambient reaches of black metal, filling the space between songs with texture and dread. Since 2015, they've built a sound more interested in suffocating atmosphere than outright aggression.

Seattle's Hades Bellum brings a merciless black/death metal hybrid to the Pacific Northwest underground, with a name that invokes the god of the underworld alongside the Latin word for war. Founded in 2024, they're one of the newer and more aggressive acts to emerge from the city's extreme scene.

San Diego's Hadoth deals in atmospheric black metal that prioritizes enveloping darkness over sheer violence — sweeping, textured, and deliberately cold. Formed in 2024, they're a recent addition to Southern California's contemplative black metal scene.