Shasta, California's Caverns practice raw, lo-fi black metal leaning heavily into the primitive, underground aesthetic with sparse, tape-hiss-drenched recordings and bleak melodic sensibility.

Little Rock's Cavort Usurp mix black metal's raw intensity with hardcore's direct aggression and thrash metal's riff-forward energy, creating a crossover-adjacent sound that feels combative and street-level.

Reading, Pennsylvania's Cavum pursue straightforward, grimly melodic black metal drawing on the European second-wave tradition — tremolo-driven riffs, blasting drums, and vocals smeared in reverb.

Portland's Cavusum deal in an experimental strain of black metal pushing past genre orthodoxy into more dissonant, texturally strange territory, reflecting Portland's tradition of deconstructing extreme metal forms.

Alliance, Ohio's Cebog push black metal into experimental and abstract territory, using the genre's harshness as a starting point for dissonant, structurally unconventional compositions.

Operating from the remote isolation of Kenai, Alaska, Celestial Annihilation deliver raw black metal with frostbitten, geographically appropriate desolation — thin, razor-edged production and relentless blasting.

Celestial Mass is a Pennsylvania black metal project steeped in the cold, atmospheric tradition — layered tremolo riffs, shrieked vocals, and a cavernous production aesthetic that emphasizes darkness over clarity. Their work draws from both the cosmic and the misanthropic strands of the genre.

Celestial Sovereignty is a progressive black/death metal band from Modesto, California. They blend the sinister atmosphere of black metal, the brutality of death metal, and the compositional complexity of progressive metal into multi-layered compositions.

Celestial Sword is a raw black metal project with an emphasis on nocturnal and cosmic themes, active in the underground split-release community alongside acts such as LLYR, Nightmare Ecstasy, Nocturnal Effigy, Adrasteia, and Upir. Releases include "Nocturnal Divinity," "Nocturne of the Mourning Moon," and "Constellations of Fatality and Metamorphosis."