Brooklyn's Mortals emerged from the sludge and hardcore underground in 2011 before moving toward a heavier, more blackened sound, carving out a distinct space where sludge's oppressive weight meets the cold fury of black metal.

Montana's Morte Hominis is a raw black metal project formed in 2021, producing harsh, primitive recordings that capitalize on the region's isolation to deliver suitably bleak and abrasive extremity.

Eugene, Oregon's Morte Sinata have been active in the black metal underground since 2011, bringing a Pacific Northwest sensibility to classic black metal forms with a consistently underground orientation.

Brooklyn-based black metal outfit Mortem Cultum formed in 2018, adding to New York City's dense extreme metal underground with a sound rooted in the orthodox, ritualistic side of the genre.

Formed in 2012 in Oxnard, California, Mortificado operate at the crossroads of black and death metal, fusing the venomous spite of black metal aesthetics with death metal's pulverizing low-end attack.

A raw black metal project active since 2003, Mortification traffic in the most primitive and caustic strain of the genre, stripping production to bare wire and leaning hard into the lo-fi, venomous spirit of underground black metal.

Relentless Black Metal from San Antonio.

Los Angeles black metal act Mortis Inanis, formed in 2015, conjure cold, misanthropic soundscapes befitting their name — 'hollow death' — with a style that emphasizes atmosphere and desolation over spectacle.

Seattle's Morto-Naught, formed in 2021, push blackened death metal into unconventional territory through experimental composition and unorthodox structures, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's tradition of avant-garde extremity to carve out genuinely strange sonic ground.