Black/thrash metal from Dallas. Continuation of Absu legacy.

Founded in Columbia, South Carolina in 2021, Prosperity Gospel channel the dissonant spirituality of post-black metal through waves of shoegaze texture and atmospheric tremolo. Their name signals a knowing irony, setting oppressive American cultural themes against music that dissolves boundaries into something almost transcendent.

Protagony arrived from Queens, New York in 2024, immediately staking out space in the post-black metal underground with dense layering, introspective intensity, and the urban claustrophobia that marks much of the New York extreme scene. Their music channels black metal's rawness into expansive, emotionally weighted structures.

Active since 2018 and operating out of Tampere, Finland, Praeternatura pursue a austere and ritualistic strain of black metal grounded in the Nordic tradition of atmosphere and sonic punishment. Their music resists accessibility in favor of immersive darkness, treating the genre as a vessel for something that feels genuinely beyond the natural order.

Out of Holden, Maine, Psonen forges blackened thrash metal with the cold, rural isolation of New England seeping into their sound — raw black metal menace fused with the driving aggression of classic thrash, active since 2019.

Portland, Oregon's Psychotropic carve an unusual niche in the Pacific Northwest underground, combining the corrosive weight of sludge metal with black and death metal's extremity — a murky, suffocating blend that suits Portland's reputation for genre-defying heaviness.

Fayetteville, Arkansas's Pulsar Colony bend black metal into psychedelic and experimental shapes, using the genre's cold tremolo architecture as a launching pad for disorienting, outer-space explorations. Since 2014 they've been one of the more adventurous outliers to emerge from the mid-South underground.

Salt Lake City's Pure Dread work in experimental black metal territory, building on the genre's trademark atmosphere with disorienting structures and unconventional texture since forming in 2021. They're among the younger Utah acts pushing against the boundaries of what black metal permits.

Houston's Purest are a freshly formed black metal act, emerging in 2024 with the raw, stripped-down ethos that defines the genre's underground current. Too new to have an established catalog, they represent the continued vitality of black metal in the Texas extreme music scene.