Los Angeles's Genital Shame approach experimental black metal from an oblique angle, founded in 2022 with a sound that courts discomfort as much as aggression. Provocative in name and in practice.

Louisville, Kentucky's Gennembore arrived in 2023 carrying the weight of their city's sludge and doom heritage into raw black metal terrain. New, but already steeped in the kind of darkness Louisville does particularly well.

A raw black metal outfit from Toledo, Ohio, Genocidal Rites emerged in 2023 with a ferocious and uncompromising approach rooted in the grimmer traditions of the genre. Their name and ethos leave little ambiguity — this is black metal with no interest in refinement.

Lansing, Michigan's Genocya has been weaving black and death metal together since 2011, crafting a sound that swings between icy tremolo passages and down-tuned, guttural extremity. They occupy that punishing middle ground where both genres drag each other deeper into the dark.

Hailing from Fulton, Missouri, Gerasene arrived in 2024 with a blackened melodic death metal sound that balances icy ferocity with sweeping, melodic grandeur. The name references the biblical demonic — an apt metaphor for music this possessed.

North Carolina's Germanic Iron traffics in the harsh, martial intersection of black and death metal, producing music that sounds like a siege engine wrapped in frost. They've been waging sonic warfare since 2016.

Jacksonville, Florida's Gerovit takes its name from a Slavic war deity and delivers a thrash-forward black metal attack to match — fast, aggressive, and steeped in ancient menace. Formed in 2023, they're already hitting with conviction.

A New Jersey black metal project with a distinctly archaic name, Gersey Deoful operates in the raw, atmospheric end of the spectrum where isolation and atmosphere count as much as speed. Active since 2021, they favor atmosphere built on murk and malice.

St. Louis black metal act Gestalt deals in cold, unornamented darkness — stripped-down riffs and a bleak, suffocating atmosphere that owes more to second-wave austerity than modern production values. They've been haunting the Missouri underground since 2018.