I Am Heresy formed in 2011 in Delaware as a new project from Nathan Gray, known for his work in boysetsfire and The Casting Out, with his son Simon Gray also among the members. Their self-titled debut (2012) channeled the passionate fury of early boysetsfire filtered through the metallic hardcore of Integrity and Converge, and a second album followed in 2014. The project carries the politically and personally engaged songwriting approach Gray established through his earlier work.

A sole practitioner of atmospheric black metal who emerged in 2024, weaving dense, suffocating textures around themes of self-erasure and void. Harrowing ambient passages dissolve into raw, tremolo-driven cascades.

Out of rural Unionville, Tennessee, this black/death metal project unleashes a particularly nasty strain of extremity — snarling tremolo malice colliding with cavernous death metal weight in near-total isolation.

A long-running Illinois one-man project that began in raw, caustic black metal before evolving into sweeping symphonic and atmospheric territories — a solitary journey spanning over a decade of increasingly ambitious composition.

Iarna, whose name draws from the Romanian word for winter, emerged from Spokane in 2025 with a frost-bitten black metal sound that suits the high plateau cold of Eastern Washington.

Los Angeles black metal entity drawing its name and character from the god of fear's lesser moon, channeling a claustrophobic, dread-soaked atmosphere that feels at odds with its sun-drenched surroundings.

Atlanta's melodic death/black metal hybrid emerged in 2021 with a sound split between soaring melodic hooks and outright blackened hostility — the South's answer to the Gothenburg-Dissection axis.

A ferocious black/death/grind amalgam — the Bandcamp URL hints at Texas origins — colliding all three genres into something confrontational and barely contained, refusing to settle into any single extreme.

Minneapolis black/sludge metal duo formed in 2022, marrying the frozen misanthropy of black metal to the tar-thick heaviness of sludge in a way that suits the long, lightless winters of the upper Midwest.