Fort Lauderdale's Kult ov Azazel is among Florida's most enduring black metal names, active since 1999 through the full arc of the American black metal underground. Decades deep, their satanic black metal remains caustic and committed — a record of long-haul devotion to the most extreme end of the genre.

Named for the ancient Sumerian underworld, Lexington, Kentucky's Kur has been dealing in blackened death metal since 2021. Their music draws on mythology to frame an unrelenting sonic darkness — grinding, malevolent, and rooted in both genres' most corrosive qualities.

New York's Kyrios traffic in the no-man's-land between death and black metal, built on a foundation of malevolent riffing and cold, adversarial atmosphere since their 2020 formation.

Named after the Swedish word for graveyard, San Diego's Kyrkogård have been crafting black/doom metal since 2018 — slow, smothering, and steeped in the kind of bleak Nordic atmosphere rarely conjured from Southern California.