Springfield, Missouri thrash metal band that has been operating since 2017, bringing hard-hitting, riff-driven thrash to the Missouri underground. Their straightforward thrash approach in a city not typically associated with the genre makes them a notable outlier in the Midwest metal scene.

Maryland black/speed metal act launched in 2023, fusing the rawness and malevolence of black metal with the full-throttle propulsion of speed metal. A young project out of Maryland's relatively active underground, they lean into the aggressive hybrid style championed by early bands like Venom and Midnight.

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania death metal band formed in 2020, emerging from central Pennsylvania's small but dedicated extreme metal community. Their name and origin point to an act interested in ritual-heavy, old-school death metal aesthetics well removed from urban metal hubs.

Brooklyn-based blackened death metal band formed in 2021, forging the kind of dense, suffocating sound that feels at home in New York City's densely packed extreme metal underground. They marry black metal's atmosphere and hostility with death metal's rhythmic brutality.

Hudson County, New Jersey extreme metal band founded in 2016 that has evolved considerably over its existence — starting in death metal and grindcore territory before shifting toward black metal, making them one of the more stylistically restless acts in the New Jersey underground.

Standing Rock, New Mexico raw black metal project born in 2020, channeling the lo-fi fury and isolation of the rawer black metal underground from an unusual and geographically remote vantage point. Their location in Standing Rock adds a stark, desert-bound bleakness to the genre's already nihilistic core.

Black/death metal from Houston. One of the most important bands in the Texas extreme underground.

Houston black/death metal. Raw South American-influenced extremity.

Ypsilanti, Michigan's Mordake deal in raw black metal stripped to its most primitive and abrasive essentials, operating since 2015 within the American underground's lo-fi black metal tradition. Their sound prioritizes atmosphere through harshness rather than polish, keeping the music deliberately ugly and confrontational.