St. Louis black/death metal act Rottendom arrived in 2025, bringing a fresh wave of malevolence to Missouri's underground extreme scene. Their sound draws on the darkest currents of both traditions, merging black metal's atmospheric spite with death metal's crushing physicality.

Formed in 2020 somewhere in the southwestern United States, Rotting Coffin deals in raw, primitive black metal with a deliberately obscure and desolate character fitting the region's harsh terrain. Their approach leans into the underground with minimal production and an atmosphere of corrosion.

Portland, Oregon's Rotting Sky has spent over a decade building suffocating soundscapes where funeral doom's glacial pace meets the bleak atmospherics of black metal and ambient drone. Their music is slow, cavernous, and oppressive — less concerned with riffs than with the weight of sustained decay.

Texas act Rougarou, formed in 2024, takes their name from the Cajun werewolf legend and channels it into raw black metal laced with folk elements — an unsettling mix that roots their sound in regional myth and primitive riffing. It's an early but sharp-edged project with a distinctly American folkloric slant.

Relentless Black Metal out of Texas.

New Jersey's Ruins have been grinding out heavy, fuzz-saturated stoner metal since 2001, drawing on the genre's psychedelic and blues-soaked roots with a sound built for low-end punishment.

Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Dallas.

Rêx Mündi is an American black metal project operating since 2011, drawing on the rawness and esoteric atmosphere that define the genre's underground tradition, with an identity rooted more in concept than geography.