Moonlit Fortress is a raw black metal project from Fredericksburg, Virginia, formed in 2025. Among the newest acts in the underground, they occupy a tradition that prizes austerity, noise, and rejection of polish — music that sounds like it was recorded in a basement because it was.

A New Hampshire atmospheric black metal project founded in 2024, weaving cold, expansive soundscapes into the raw aggression of traditional black metal — emphasizing mood and texture as much as ferocity.

Lexington, Kentucky's Moonsword deal in raw, uncompromising black metal since forming in 2018 — part of a growing underground current in the American heartland pushing the genre's pagan and misanthropic themes.

From Salem, Massachusetts — a city whose dark folklore is practically built into the soil — Moontroll have practiced an unapologetically raw brand of black metal since 2020, fitting their hometown's grim legacy well.

Chicago's Moral Void have been straddling black metal and crust punk since 2013, binding the nihilistic fury of both genres into a raw, abrasive sound that thrives in the city's dense and combative underground.

Los Angeles post-black metal and shoegaze act Morari have been crafting dense, layered compositions since 2017, blending black metal's tremolo intensity with the hazy, introspective textures of shoegaze in the Southern California sprawl.

Provo, Utah's Moray have been active since 2008, navigating a hybrid space between post-black metal's atmospheric sweep and thrash metal's aggressive momentum — an unusual pairing that suits the drama of Utah's landscapes.

A North Carolina black metal project formed in 2016, Morbe operate in the underground tradition of the genre — raw, uncompromising, and largely apart from the mainstream, consistent with the isolation often inherent in black metal's ethos.

Dallas black metal act Morbid Anal Fog have been operating on the provocative fringes of the underground since 2010, trafficking in the genre's most confrontational impulses with a name that announces their commitment to transgression upfront.