Memphis's HellThrasher collide black metal, death metal, and crust punk into a grimy, feral hybrid since 2017 — the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a condemned building and means every second of it. Southern heat filtered through pitch-black nihilism.

Occult blackened death/doom from the Ordo Satanae Imperium collective. Shares members with Nyogthaeblisz and Nexul. Two albums on Iron Bonehead Productions.

Chicago's Helms Deep take a darker road than their namesake, fusing black metal's corrosive atmosphere with thrash metal's velocity since forming in 2023. The result is a siege engine built for underground assault rather than arena glory.

New York's Hemlock trade in a stripped-down, venomous strain of black metal since 2018 — the kind of music that feels personal, antagonistic, and far less interested in spectacle than in atmosphere. Cold, minimal, and quietly corrosive.

Oregon's Henbane Chariot evoke the poisonous plant that shares their name — a black metal act born in 2021 with a sound that is murky, hallucinatory, and laced with something deeply unwholesome. Dark folk undertones lurk beneath the blasting.

Atlanta's Heretical Rites blend blackened death metal into something caustic and ceremonial since their 2024 inception, approaching the genre's darkest traditions with a sense of ritual purpose. Georgia's underground gains a genuinely malevolent new voice.

Santa Fe, New Mexico's Heretical Sect bring a desolate, high-desert black metal aesthetic to the genre since 2019 — sparse, harsh, and imbued with the particular loneliness of the American Southwest. Their sound is as dry and unforgiving as the landscape.

Burlington, North Carolina's Hermaeus Mora began as an atmospheric black and death metal act in 2015 before evolving toward metalcore, always guided by a cinematic heaviness and an appetite for transformation. Named for the Daedric Prince of forbidden knowledge, they've pursued their own sonic secrets across several years of restless genre movement.

Athens, Georgia's Heroic Depletion specialize in raw black metal that is deliberately abrasive and deliberately lo-fi since 2019 — the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a state of genuine grievance. Primitive in all the ways that matter.