Sepulchrum emerged from Irving, Texas in 2023 trafficking in raw black metal of the most unadorned and primitive variety. Their music strips the genre down to its coldest essentials — corrosive tremolo, lo-fi production, and an atmosphere of total hostility — rooted in the underground black metal ethos that eschews refinement by design. They are part of a quietly growing raw black metal presence in the North Texas area.

Birmingham, Alabama act Seraphic Entombment have been crafting suffocating death-doom since 2019, drawing on the genre's most crushing traditions — glacial tempos, cavernous low-end, and an oppressive atmosphere that earns the city's heavy reputation.

Hayward, California's Seraphim Defloration deal in the guttural end of brutal death metal, built on punishing rhythms, gurgural vocals, and the kind of relentless sonic violence that has defined the Bay Area's underground extreme metal scene since the band's 2015 formation.

A fresh arrival out of Seattle, Seraphlesh formed in 2025 blending melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the raw aggression of straight-ahead death metal — one of the Pacific Northwest's newest entries in the melodeath tradition.

Denver's Seren occupy an ambitious crossroads of progressive black and death metal with metalcore influences, weaving volatile extremity and structural complexity into a sound that has distinguished the band in Colorado's underground since 2017.

Boston's Serpent of Gnosis grind and bludgeon at the intersection of death metal and grindcore, channeling frenzied blastbeats and dense riff violence into tightly wound bursts of extremity since forming in 2019.

Kansas City's Serpent Sceptre arrived in 2024 with a blackened death metal approach, combining the ferocity of death metal with the cold, malevolent atmosphere of black metal in a city with a quietly growing extreme metal underground.

Los Angeles death/thrash outfit Serpentance formed in 2019 and channel the old-school ferocity of both genres — tightly wound riffs, barked vocals, and the kind of no-frills brutality that keeps the Southern California underground honest.

Out of Arbuckle in rural Northern California, Serpentera have been delivering death/thrash metal since 2018 — a two-genre hybrid that puts the pedal down on aggression and channels the raw energy of both traditions into a compact, punishing sound.