Named for the Norse corpse-swallowing eagle at the edge of the world, Concord, New Hampshire's Hræsvelgr have been playing black metal steeped in heathen mythology since 2016. Their sound is as austere and uncompromising as the name suggests.

Buffalo, New York's Hubris channel a different kind of pride — the black metal variety — since 2015, operating with the bleak ferocity that the industrial ruins of western New York seem to inspire. Cold and unrelenting.

Washington state's Hulder is a solo black metal act named for the seductive forest spirits of Norse folklore, weaving atmospheric darkness with melodic intensity since 2018. Their debut earned wide acclaim for its confident grip on the second-wave tradition.

New Jersey's Humanicide blend black metal's cold fury with the d-beat pulse and social rage of crust punk, forging something that sounds like civilization finally getting what it deserves. A project as hostile to comfort as the name implies.

Filthy Black Metal from Dripping Springs.

Scorching Black Metal from El Paso.

Bedroom black metal and death drone project. Merges early 90s black metal with Broken Flag-style industrial and Lustmord-esque dark ambient.

Castle Rock, Colorado's Hämärä — Finnish for "twilight" or "dim" — bring a brooding intensity to their metalcore that earns the name. Formed in 2019, they craft emotionally charged, hard-hitting songs that sit in that uncomfortable space between light and dark.

A sole practitioner of atmospheric black metal who emerged in 2024, weaving dense, suffocating textures around themes of self-erasure and void. Harrowing ambient passages dissolve into raw, tremolo-driven cascades.

Out of rural Unionville, Tennessee, this black/death metal project unleashes a particularly nasty strain of extremity — snarling tremolo malice colliding with cavernous death metal weight in near-total isolation.

A long-running Illinois one-man project that began in raw, caustic black metal before evolving into sweeping symphonic and atmospheric territories — a solitary journey spanning over a decade of increasingly ambitious composition.

Iarna, whose name draws from the Romanian word for winter, emerged from Spokane in 2025 with a frost-bitten black metal sound that suits the high plateau cold of Eastern Washington.

Los Angeles black metal entity drawing its name and character from the god of fear's lesser moon, channeling a claustrophobic, dread-soaked atmosphere that feels at odds with its sun-drenched surroundings.

Atlanta's melodic death/black metal hybrid emerged in 2021 with a sound split between soaring melodic hooks and outright blackened hostility — the South's answer to the Gothenburg-Dissection axis.

A ferocious black/death/grind amalgam — the Bandcamp URL hints at Texas origins — colliding all three genres into something confrontational and barely contained, refusing to settle into any single extreme.