Washington State's Slimer blend black and death metal with avant-garde ambition, pursuing a deliberately disorienting sound that resists easy categorization since 2015. Their experimental impulses push them beyond genre convention into territory where atmosphere and abstraction carry equal weight with aggression.

Gassaway, West Virginia's Slith bring black metal's cold, unforgiving sound from one of the more remote corners of the American underground, operating in isolation since their 2023 formation. Their music fits the tradition of raw black metal built in small towns far from any established scene infrastructure.

Los Angeles' Slog combine the bleakness of death-doom with black metal's icy atmosphere and death metal's brutality since their 2021 formation, creating music that crawls through the darkest possible sonic spaces. Their multi-genre approach reflects LA's ability to generate extreme metal that refuses easy categorization.

Baltimore's Sloth Herder collide black metal's corrosive blast with grindcore's ferocious brevity, producing music that is simultaneously overwhelming in speed and density since 2012. Their hybrid attack places them among Maryland's most confrontational extreme metal acts.

Grand Rapids, Michigan band formed in 2021 forging a volatile mix of black metal, death metal, and sludge, combining extremity and abrasion across a broad spectrum of underground styles.

Slutlust is a Philadelphia black/speed metal outfit formed in 2014, blending the raw aggression of first-wave black metal with the stripped-down velocity of speed metal in the tradition of acts like Venom and Motörhead.

Slytherin is a Los Angeles atmospheric black metal project formed in 2020, weaving dense, cold-blooded tremolo riffs and reverb-drenched ambiance into sweeping, darkly cinematic compositions.

Smoke Dweller is an atmospheric black metal and ambient project from San Luis Obispo, California, formed in 2017, fusing raw black metal textures with expansive ambient passages to create deeply immersive and desolate soundscapes.

Smolder Glow is a blackened death metal band from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2020, fusing the blast-beat ferocity and tremolo aggression of black metal with the blunt, guttural weight of death metal.