Skeletal Mass is a Brooklyn, New York black metal act formed in 2023, entering a borough with a crowded extreme metal underground and staking their claim with what appears to be a stripped-down, orthodox approach to the genre. Young as they are, they represent the continuing health of New York City's grassroots black metal scene.

Originally from Ohio, now Austin-based. Blackened thrash perfection.

A young black metal project emerging from Portland, Oregon's underground in 2022, Skeletorture leans into raw, uncompromising darkness — a city known for its fertile extreme metal scene providing fertile ground for this newly formed act.

Connecticut's Skeltima launched in 2023 with a sound that marries the grim atmosphere of black metal to the muscular directness of traditional heavy metal, staking out a place in the state's emerging extreme metal scene.

Savage Death / Black Metal with Punk influences from Texas (early); San Diego, California (later).

This elusive raw black metal entity, active since 2021, forgoes location and commercial accessibility in favor of lo-fi abrasion and atmospheric severity — the kind of deliberately obscured project that treats underground anonymity as an aesthetic stance.

A U.S. black metal project active since 2022, Skinhunger operates with the anonymity and rawness common to the American underground — bleak, minimalist compositions that lean into atmosphere over accessibility.

A black metal act from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, Skitchrist have been operating in the small-town underground since 2013, crafting adversarial, lo-fi black metal with a provincial rawness that suits their rural central PA origins.

Minneapolis's Skjolden, formed in 2025, pursue a melodic black/death metal sound named after a Norwegian fjord village — marrying Scandinavian-influenced melodicism with the intensity of death metal in the tradition of Minneapolis's long-running extreme metal underground.