Oregon's Henbane Chariot evoke the poisonous plant that shares their name — a black metal act born in 2021 with a sound that is murky, hallucinatory, and laced with something deeply unwholesome. Dark folk undertones lurk beneath the blasting.

Atlanta's Heretical Rites blend blackened death metal into something caustic and ceremonial since their 2024 inception, approaching the genre's darkest traditions with a sense of ritual purpose. Georgia's underground gains a genuinely malevolent new voice.

Santa Fe, New Mexico's Heretical Sect bring a desolate, high-desert black metal aesthetic to the genre since 2019 — sparse, harsh, and imbued with the particular loneliness of the American Southwest. Their sound is as dry and unforgiving as the landscape.

Burlington, North Carolina's Hermaeus Mora began as an atmospheric black and death metal act in 2015 before evolving toward metalcore, always guided by a cinematic heaviness and an appetite for transformation. Named for the Daedric Prince of forbidden knowledge, they've pursued their own sonic secrets across several years of restless genre movement.

Athens, Georgia's Heroic Depletion specialize in raw black metal that is deliberately abrasive and deliberately lo-fi since 2019 — the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a state of genuine grievance. Primitive in all the ways that matter.

Blasphemous Black Metal from Kentucky/.

One-man black/death project by Brungard, risen from the ashes of Howls of Ebb. Released on the prestigious I, Voidhanger Records.

Named after their Inland Empire hometown, Hesperia (CA) have been trafficking in death metal since 2018 with a directness that reflects the working-class sprawl of their surroundings. Unadorned brutality from a corner of California metal that rarely gets the attention it deserves.

Philadelphia's Hessian strip the genre back to its most feral components — black metal ferocity, speed metal momentum, and the raw bite of early thrash. Since 2014 they've operated at the intersection where aggression meets velocity.

Atlanta's Hessian favor the unfiltered and abrasive end of black metal, trading atmosphere for confrontation in the raw black tradition. The project dispenses with polish entirely, prioritizing a corroded, static-soaked hostility.

Venomous Atmospheric Black Metal from Fort Wayne, Indiana/San Antonio.

Seattle's Hewa arrived in 2018 with a stripped approach to black metal that suits the Pacific Northwest's damp and darkened character. Cold, deliberate, and unornamented, the project draws on the foundational grammar of the genre without borrowing its aesthetics wholesale.

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Black Metal Punk from South Tejas conceived by Noelia Garza. Signed to Hells Headbangers Records. Debut album The Ancient Gaping Mouth released 2025.

Los Angeles' Hexen bring melodic sophistication and progressive ambition to the thrash template, threading complex arrangements through otherwise hard-hitting material. Their approach reflects the technical tradition of the LA metal scene while reaching toward something more compositionally adventurous.