Formed in Seattle in 2022, Skrelle is a black metal act working within the Pacific Northwest's fertile underground scene, channeling the region's damp, grey atmosphere into cold and abrasive compositions.

A Wisconsin-based solo or small-group project born in 2025, Skreyja works in the depressive and atmospheric corners of black metal, leaning into bleak, immersive soundscapes over speed or aggression.

Out of Mebane, North Carolina, Skull Servant play blackened thrash shot through with doom's heavy drag — a combination that gives their 2022-formed sound both speed and a suffocating, mid-tempo menace.

Portland, Oregon's SkullMaster emerged in 2020 playing a hybrid of black, heavy, and thrash metal that carries the reckless energy of the Pacific Northwest underground. Their sound pulls from classic thrash aggression while threading in black metal atmospherics and traditional heavy metal songcraft.

Skulltribe is a U.S.-based avant-garde entity born in 2019 that pushes death and black metal into dissonant, structurally unpredictable territory. Their approach refuses easy categorization, treating extreme metal as raw material to be deconstructed and reassembled in strange configurations.

Salt Lake City's Skumlord have been a fixture of the American raw black metal underground since 2007, delivering a deliberately lo-fi, corrosive sound that prioritizes atmosphere and hatred over sonic clarity. Their releases embody the stripped-back, anti-production ethos central to the raw black metal tradition.

Portland, Maine's Skvm have been operating in the black metal underground since 2013, crafting a dark, minimal sound that suits the bleak maritime atmosphere of the New England coast. Their one-word name — deliberately stripped of vowels — signals a stripped-down, adversarial approach to the genre.

Nevada's Skyclad Cult emerged in 2025, blending black metal with ambient texture in the tradition of atmospheric USBM acts who use the genre's harshness as a vessel for something more expansive and ritualistic. Brand new and already working within an evocative conceptual framework that their name makes plain.

Los Angeles's Skyeater formed in 2016 weaving black metal's icy dissonance together with doom metal's crawling tempos into a style they describe as a dirge — slow, bleak, and relentlessly oppressive. The band channels the kind of urban dread that tends to haunt Southern California's underground experimental metal scene.