Hammond, Louisiana's Kavyk have been perfecting their brand of blackened death metal since 2015, conjuring a suffocating atmosphere that feels unmistakably rooted in the damp heat of the Deep South.

Emerging from Indian Land, South Carolina in 2025, Keinyoriik traffic in the ferocious overlap of black and death metal — a new band already mining the genre's most extreme and uncompromising corridors.

San Francisco's Kerasphorus are steeped in the most blasphemous traditions of black/death metal, channeling a chaotic, bestial energy since 2016 that puts them squarely in the lineage of war metal extremity.

Oregon black/death metal outfit Kesselschlacht arrived in 2024 with a militaristic edge baked into their very name — their music carries the same sense of brutal, overwhelming force.

Tualatin, Oregon's Kestrel have been honing their black metal craft since 2020, drawing on the grey Pacific Northwest sky for a sound that's atmospheric, raw, and deeply rooted in place.

Portland, Oregon's Keys of Solomon bring a progressive lens to black metal, threading complex song structures and shifting dynamics through the genre's foundational darkness since their 2019 formation.

Seabrook, New Hampshire's Killbeast cast a wide net across melodic death, black, and thrash metal, arriving at a sound that's aggressive without being rigid. Active since 2010, they're one of New England's more eclectic extreme metal outfits.

St. Louis experimental black metal act Kivelak pushes the genre into unsettling, dissonant territory since forming in 2020. Their work treats black metal as a canvas for sonic deconstruction — fractured, cerebral, and deliberately hard to pin down.

A solo black metal project rooted somewhere in Virginia, Klanen has been cultivating raw, atmospheric darkness since 2020. Sparse in detail and dense in atmosphere, the project leans into black metal's most solitary and confrontational qualities.

Heavy Melodic Black / Death Metal from Copperas Cove.

Los Angeles depressive black metal project Klär has been excavating the genre's most desolate emotional terrain since 2012. Beneath the city's sprawl and glare, the project carves out a space of suffocating melancholy and slow-burning atmospheric despair.

Austin black metal newcomers Kneeling Bleater arrived in 2023 with an appropriately absurdist name masking music of genuine ferocity. Part of Austin's growing underground extreme metal presence, they bring a rawness and irreverence to a city more associated with barbecue than blast beats.

Marysville, Washington's Knellrite formed in 2024, channeling the melodic black metal tradition through the gray skies and old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. A new voice in a region with deep black metal roots, their sound leans into melody without softening the darkness.

Black metal project Koffinmoon emerged in 2022 from Kodiak, Alaska — one of the most geographically isolated settings imaginable for this music. The remoteness is audible: their sound carries the weight of long winters and vast, empty terrain in a way few black metal acts can genuinely claim.

D-beat crust with heavy Darkthrone and Anti-Cimex influence. Features Shane McLachlan of grindcore veterans Phobia and Final Conflict on bass.