The Occult Project emerged from Maryland in 2019 as a vehicle for corrosive black/death metal that leans into atmosphere as much as aggression. The project fuses the raw hostility of death metal with black metal's spectral menace, arriving at something deliberately unsettling.

Baltimore's The Old Evil arrived in 2022 steeped in pure black metal orthodoxy, drawing on the tradition of cold, misanthropic atmosphere that the genre was built on. Still a young act, they've positioned themselves within a city with deep underground roots and a serious commitment to keeping the form ugly and uncompromising.

New York black metal duo formed in 2016 by Frank Fisicaro and Sean Gabler, who named the project after Peter Cushing's ominous character in the 1974 Amicus horror anthology From Beyond the Grave. Their debut full-length For Nothing is my Own draws on atmospheric and traditional black metal while keeping one foot in the horror-obsessed cultural tradition that has long defined the genre's American underground.

Seattle atmospheric black metal band formed in 2024, drawing on the region's deep roots in ambient and post-metal to craft expansive, texture-driven black metal that prioritizes atmosphere over pure aggression. One of the newer additions to a Pacific Northwest underground long hospitable to the atmospheric end of the black metal spectrum.

Eugene, Oregon atmospheric black metal act founded in 2015, crafting expansive, wind-swept compositions that carry the Pacific Northwest's natural bleakness into the genre's most ambient corners. Their decade-long run places them among the more established practitioners of atmospheric black metal in the Oregon underground.

Raleigh, North Carolina black metal project active since 2016, dealing in raw and uncompromising underground black metal that values atmosphere and menace over production polish. Their decade of activity has placed them firmly within the Southeast's growing underground black metal community.

Portland blackened sludge and doom metal outfit formed in 2014, fusing the corrosive atmosphere of black metal with the slow, crushing heaviness of sludge and doom in a combination that the Pacific Northwest underground has proven particularly fertile ground for cultivating. Their sound is dense, dissonant, and deliberately oppressive.

New Mexico's The Stone Ground are a solo atmospheric black metal project that layers cascading tremolo and ambient texture into expansive, landscape-evoking compositions since 2014. The project reflects the austere, wide-open character of the Southwest, filtered through black metal's introspective and raw-production tradition.

Portland's The Sun Came Up upon the Left have been operating at the intersection of black and death metal since 2008, melding blackened atmosphere with death metal's physical weight in a city that has long fostered unusual and boundary-pushing heavy music. The literary quality of their name suggests a project with a strong aesthetic identity beyond pure aggression.