From the small city of Hutchinson, Minnesota, Monogon blend classic heavy metal sensibility with the cold, atmospheric edge of black metal, forging a distinctive sound in an unlikely corner of the Midwest since 2018.

From the small town of McConnelsville, Ohio, this trio of black, death, and thrash metal influences has been fusing extremity since 1993, generating a caustic blend of blast-driven aggression and riff-heavy menace.

Heavy Melodic Black / Death Metal from Laredo.

Out of Virginia Beach, Monolittisk have been practicing raw, primitive black metal since 2015 — the name (Norwegian for 'monolithic') signals the project's intent: unpolished, cold, and deliberately minimal.

A black metal project from Salem, Massachusetts, Monomurmurs formed in 2019 in a city whose dark history seems to seep into their atmospheric, incantatory sound — dense, murky, and deeply atmospheric.

Boulder, Colorado's Mons Absconditus — Latin for 'the hidden mountain' — have been crafting atmospheric and progressive black metal since 2015, weaving cerebral song structures through the kind of high-altitude grandeur that defines their home terrain.

Monvment is a black metal act from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, forged in 2010 and operating under the handle holymonvment. Their output leans into the cold, austere side of the genre with a devotional intensity that suits their remote Pacific Northwest setting.

Moon and Azure Shadow is a Los Angeles project working in the epic and atmospheric vein of black metal, active since 2012. Their music reaches for panoramic scale — sweeping melodic passages and vast, reverb-drenched tremolo that evoke the grandiose landscapes of the genre's most cinematic practitioners.

Moon Drunk is a Chicago trio formed in 2021 colliding grindcore velocity with black and death metal extremity into compact, caustic bursts of noise. Operating out of the city's underground, they favor speed and ferocity over nuance — short, punishing songs with no room for comfort.