Omaha's Skog (formed 2024) began in atmospheric black metal territory before shifting toward folk and thrash — a restless Midwestern project that draws on Norse woodland imagery and refuses to stay in one sonic lane.

Framingham, Massachusetts' Skog (formed 2024) work a melodic death and black metal hybrid that draws on the fusion traditions common to the Massachusetts underground, pairing Scandinavian-influenced melody with the aggression of American extreme metal.

Cleveland, Ohio's Skogwulf, formed in 2026, bring black metal out of the Rust Belt with a name evoking forest wolves — a new voice in a city with a surprisingly deep underground tradition, channeling bleakness through the genre's most confrontational sonic textures.

A black metal project from Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Skorbb have been active since 2017 in one of New England's smaller communities — crafting dense, uncompromising black metal that thrives in the anonymity and quiet of rural Rhode Island.

A Kentucky-based raw black metal project formed in 2020, Skorbvstr operates in the deliberately abrasive, minimalist tradition of the genre — lo-fi production and stripped-to-the-bone aggression serving as the project's defining aesthetic.

Georgetown, Texas's Skotose have been exploring black metal's bleaker corridors since 2022, operating just outside of Austin in a suburb that rarely appears on metal maps — their work defined by a cold, direct intensity suited to the Greek-derived name meaning 'darkness.'

Spokane, Washington's Skovicus have been crafting black metal since 2015 in a city far removed from both the coastal scenes and the genre's Scandinavian origins — an inland Northwest project that brings a cold, self-reliant quality to their material.

Out of Valhalla, New York — a town whose name suits the project well — Skovtåge has been playing black metal since 2021, the Danish name (meaning 'forest fog') matched by music that evokes dim woodland atmospheres and old-world darkness.

A black metal project out of Raleigh, North Carolina, Skrekkblod emerged in 2024 with a name drawn from Nordic-inflected horror imagery — "skrekkblod" roughly translating to terror-blood. Their approach sits squarely in raw, stripped-down black metal tradition.