Emerging from La Cienega, New Mexico in 2023, Murkurselv play depressive black metal with the high-desert isolation of northern New Mexico running through every note — sparse, grief-saturated, and shaped by a landscape that feels removed from the rest of the world. The name itself has a Nordic quality that signals familiarity with DSBM's Scandinavian roots.

Chicago's Murmur occupy the experimental and progressive wing of black metal, bending the genre's orthodoxies outward into unexpected structural and tonal territory since 2021. Operating with an exploratory ethos, they blend progressive complexity with black metal's dark foundation in a way that resists easy genre reduction.

Out of Norwich, Connecticut, Murrum has been delivering raw, atmospheric black metal since 2013 with a sound rooted in the genre's second-wave coldness. Their work leans into dissonance and primitive intensity, fitting squarely within the underground New England black metal scene.

St. Augustine, Florida's Mushroom Star occupies a peculiar junction of black metal ferocity, classic heavy metal swagger, and punk recklessness, making them one of the more difficult-to-categorize acts in the Florida underground. Active since 2011, they bring a wild, anything-goes energy to a state better known for death metal orthodoxy.

Los Angeles-based Mutagen trade in black/death metal that favors dark, warring extremes — the atmospheric chaos of black metal pressing hard against death metal's crushing technical framework. Active since 2009, they operate in LA's sprawling underground where genre lines blur under the sheer volume of the city's metal output.

Ganado, Arizona's Mutilated Tyrant play black/death metal from the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona, making them a genuinely singular presence in American extreme metal — a band whose geographic and cultural context is as striking as their aggressive hybrid of the two genres. Active since 2017, they release through their own Mutilated Tyrant Bandcamp.

Brooklyn's Mutilation Rites have carved a reputation since 2011 for their ferocious black/death hybrid — corrosive tremolo riffing and blast-beat fury filtered through New York City's underground extremity.

Buffalo, New York's Mutilation Station blend melodic black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality, drawing on the region's frigid winters to inform their dissonant, layered approach since 2022.

Leesburg, Virginia's Mvrdvrkvltvr pursue a blackened death metal assault since 2020, their deliberately obscured name matching the dense, misanthropic fog they generate across their underground output.