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Rising out of Missoula in 2023, Lust Hag deal in raw black metal that sounds like it was recorded inside a Montana winter — primitive, corrosive, and unfiltered. A solo project that refuses to polish away the ugliness.
Panama City's Lustravi have been honing a cold, uncompromising black metal sound since 2015, drawing more from European second-wave severity than any regional warmth. Harsh, deliberate, and uninterested in accessibility.
Illinois blackened death metal outfit Lycan Rex arrived in 2023 with a feral blend of blast-beat ferocity and riff-driven darkness, treating genre boundaries as obstacles rather than rules. Still early, but already predatory.
Charlotte's Lygophile treat black metal as a skeleton rather than a blueprint, pulling it apart with experimental textures and unconventional structure since 2017. The name — meaning one who loves darkness — fits the mission precisely.
Indianapolis melodic black/death outfit Lysura balance knife-sharp riffing against a melodic sensibility that keeps the music from collapsing into pure brutality, a tension they've been refining since 2012. Cold but never static.
Miami's Maedusa conjure melodic black/death metal with the heat and tension of South Florida baked in — serpentine riffs coiling around bleak, atmospheric stretches. Since 2016 they've carved a menacing identity that feels distinctly rooted in the subtropics.
Named for the treacherous elf of Tolkien's mythology, Grand Rapids-based Maeglin deal in pure, cold black metal — raw and unadorned. A project born in 2020, they channel the genre's second-wave austerity with genuine atmospheric weight.
Pennsylvania's Maelstrom conjure black metal that lives up to their name — dissonant, churning, and relentlessly unforgiving. Since 2018 the project has pursued a dark, uncompromising approach rooted deep in the genre's extremes.
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