Orlando, Florida black metal project formed in 2014, Dzoavits takes its name from a cannibal giant in Shoshone mythology, signaling a thematic depth that reaches beyond typical Scandinavian-derived black metal imagery. Florida's extreme metal pedigree runs deep, and Dzoavits contributes a more esoteric strain to that tradition.

Boston atmospheric folk/black metal act formed in 2016, Dzö-nga weaves Himalayan folklore and indigenous mythologies into a sound built on sweeping black metal atmospherics and folk instrumentation. Their work is among the more culturally specific and spiritually rooted in the American black metal underground.

Rapid City, South Dakota black metal project formed in 2020, Dísablót takes its name from a Norse sacrificial ceremony honoring the dísir — female ancestral spirits — situating the project squarely within heathen tradition. Their Dakotas origin lends an isolated, stark quality appropriate to their icy, pagan aesthetic.

Alabama black metal project formed in 2016, Død (Norwegian for 'death') carries forward the stripped and confrontational spirit of raw black metal from an unlikely Southern US setting. The contrast between the Southern locale and the Nordic aesthetic is part of what gives the project its edge.

Formed in 2025 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Dùvraith works in the atmospheric black metal tradition, using cold, expansive textures and depressive undertones to build immersive soundscapes. A new arrival in the American atmospheric black metal scene, the project emerges from an otherwise rare corner of the South for this style.

A Salt Lake City act that has quietly developed a blend of melodic death and black metal since 2008, Eallic leans into the melodic side of both genres to craft something darker and more atmospheric than either alone.

An Austin black metal project that surfaced in 2022, Earth Weary Twin sounds like it belongs to a colder latitude — raw, desolate, and shaped by the grimmer end of the genre's emotional spectrum.

A Portland atmospheric black metal act that emerged in 2023, Earthen Altar works within a tradition the Pacific Northwest helped build — vast, bleak, and evocative of landscapes that dwarf the people moving through them.

Denver's Earthen Tongue, active since 2015, merges doom metal's weight with the colder textures of black metal, producing something appropriately bleak for a band with "666" in their Bandcamp handle.