Denver's Glacial Tomb work in a devastating three-way collision of black, death, and sludge metal, and the result sounds like being buried under a collapsing mountain in the coldest possible winter. Formed in 2017, they're one of Colorado's most formidable extreme acts.

Portland, Oregon's Glacier revive the classic traditions of heavy and power metal with a reverence for melody, soaring vocals, and anthemic songwriting that feels earnest rather than nostalgic. Active since 2013, they're a bright light in the Pacific Northwest's heavier underground.

Raw, unpolished, and deliberately hostile, Glaive strips black metal back to its most primitive essentials — primitive tremolo lines, blizzard-blast drumming, and vocals dragged up from the frost. A project born in 2020 with no interest in compromise.

Lexington, Kentucky's Glass Coffin has been excavating the most frigid corners of black metal since 2014, building a sound that is both spectral and suffocating. There's a finality to their music that lives up to the name.

Out of Marshalltown, Iowa, Glass Ox forges a strange, compelling hybrid — black metal's cold hostility colliding with heavy metal swagger and a strong punk undercurrent. Since 2020 they've been one of the more ornery acts in the Midwest underground.

From the small town of Somerville, Tennessee, Glass Shrine has quietly cultivated a black metal sound built on atmosphere and sincerity since 2016. There's something devotional in their approach — fragile and fierce in equal measure.

Genre-defying Austin trio blending post-metal, black metal, sludge, and shoegaze. Signed to Pelagic Records.

Named for the Questing Beast of Arthurian legend — a creature heard but never fully seen — Bloomington, Indiana's Glatisant pursues depressive black metal into abstract, haunted spaces. Their music has the quality of something searching endlessly without resolution.

Drawing its name from the mythological binding that held the wolf Fenrir, California's Gleipner channels Norse themes into black metal that aims to restrain and overwhelm in equal measure. Founded in 2022, they bring a focused, mythologically charged darkness.