A black metal project with no listed city, Wuldorgast emerged in 2024 with a name that evokes Old English or proto-Germanic mysticism — a fitting frame for black metal rooted in ancient, unknowable imagery. Their debut material places them in the US underground's more obscurantist corner.

Salt Lake City's Wulf Blitzer have been running black metal, death metal, and hardcore through the same engine since 2015, producing something that hits harder and moves faster than any one of those genres alone. Utah's underground scene is small but fierce, and Wulf Blitzer embody that scrappy, crossover energy.

A Florida black metal project active since 2019, Wulf Chant operates without a listed city — deliberately anonymous in the way that suits the more solitary, ritualistic end of the genre. Their sound leans into the raw, primitive side of American black metal, unconcerned with accessibility or polish.

Project of Imprecation vocalist David Herrera. Black/death/thrash/punk hybrid. Released a split with Hexella on Goat Throne Records.

Cleveland's Wyld Timez weaponize the rawness of first-wave black metal and fuse it to the locomotive momentum of speed metal and classic heavy metal, resulting in a high-energy blast of blackened aggression formed in 2021. Their approach pulls from the leather-and-spikes underground with a restless, reckless energy.

North Carolina's Wyqm have been operating in the underground black metal sphere since 2011, pursuing a raw and austere approach to the genre that prizes atmosphere and conviction over polish. Their long tenure in the US black metal underground speaks to a dedicated, uncompromising artistic vision.

Dallas black metal act Wyrm Chasm have carved out their space in the Texas underground since 2015, channeling cold riffs and grim atmosphere into a sound that fits within the raw, orthodox end of American black metal. Their work reflects the isolation and severity that defines the subgenre at its most serious.

New Hampshire's Wyrmblood emerged in 2025 with a blackened death metal approach that marries the dissonant fury of black metal to the blunt force of death metal. As a fresh entity in the northeastern underground, they arrive with the menace and darkness their name implies.

Portland, Maine's Wyrmoon are a black metal act formed in 2023, cultivating a grim and atmospheric sound befitting the cold, coastal isolation of the northeastern United States. Their recent founding places them among a new wave of American black metal acts committed to the genre's most foreboding qualities.

Los Angeles black metal newcomers Wyrmtongue launched in 2024, bringing a harsh and uncompromising approach to the genre from within one of North America's most unlikely metal hubs. Their presence in the LA underground signals an interest in bleakness and extremity over the city's more polished heavy fare.

Ruthless Black / Death Metal out of Texas.

East Falmouth, Massachusetts outfit Wyrre blend death metal's brutality with the atmospheric and dissonant elements of black metal, forging a death/black sound rooted in the isolated quiet of Cape Cod turned inside out. Formed in 2020, their work reflects a self-contained underground ethic far from major scene centers.

Chicago's Wysdom combine blackened heavy metal with a punk-inflected edge, filtering their approach through the gritty street-level energy of Illinois's underground since their 2017 formation. Their crossing of classic heavy metal muscle with black metal darkness and punk attitude gives them a distinctly rough-edged character.

Wytchaus are a black/death metal project formed in 2022 whose precise location remains unknown, channeling the claustrophobic and malevolent intersection of both genres with an outsider anonymity that suits the material. Their work leans into the darkness common to the underground extreme metal world.

Florida's Wørsen have been sharpening a ferocious black/death/grind hybrid since 2012, compressing the blast and fury of all three extreme genres into material that is brief, ugly, and deliberately merciless. Their Floridian roots and long tenure in the underground mark them as committed extremists with no interest in accessibility.