Black metal band from Davenport, Iowa, active since 2013. Named after a funerary cult-like gathering evoked by the Colossi of Memnon, they bring a ritualistic, mythology-steeped sensibility to the American Midwest black metal underground.

Sepulchrum emerged from Irving, Texas in 2023 trafficking in raw black metal of the most unadorned and primitive variety. Their music strips the genre down to its coldest essentials — corrosive tremolo, lo-fi production, and an atmosphere of total hostility — rooted in the underground black metal ethos that eschews refinement by design. They are part of a quietly growing raw black metal presence in the North Texas area.

Denver's Seren occupy an ambitious crossroads of progressive black and death metal with metalcore influences, weaving volatile extremity and structural complexity into a sound that has distinguished the band in Colorado's underground since 2017.

San Diego's Sergulath fuse orchestral grandeur with the raw edge of black and thrash metal, building a symphonic black/thrash sound that sets them apart in Southern California's scene since their 2018 formation.

New York's Serling arrived in 2021 with a stripped-down black metal approach — raw, atmospheric, and rooted in the cold intensity that defines underground USBM, named with a nod to the state's tradition of uncompromising darkness.

Kansas City's Serpent Sceptre arrived in 2024 with a blackened death metal approach, combining the ferocity of death metal with the cold, malevolent atmosphere of black metal in a city with a quietly growing extreme metal underground.

Active since 2014, Serpent Seed blend black metal's misanthropic rawness with the blunt force of punk, creating a caustic, lo-fi hybrid that strips the subgenre to its most aggressive and primitive impulses.

Los Angeles-based Servile Conceptions blend blackened ferocity with death metal's brutality, threading cold, dissonant tremolo lines through a foundation of aggressive, mid-paced heaviness. Active since 2013, they occupy the dark and confrontational space where LA's underground extreme metal scene intersects with the philosophical blackness of the genre's European roots.

Formed in 2022 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Seven Hollows bring an expansive and melancholy vision to atmospheric black metal, weaving glacial guitar textures and bleak ambient passages across a backdrop of Ozark isolation. Despite being a young project, their approach to the genre feels deliberate and deeply absorbed in the introspective tradition of the form.