Portland's Master Burial conjures suffocating walls of raw, atmospheric black metal soaked in despair and Pacific Northwest bleakness. Formed in 2021, the project channels depressive DSBM traditions through a lo-fi haze that feels genuinely harrowing.

Tennessee-based Mourn work in the most isolationist and despairing territory of depressive black metal, crafting slow, suffocating music that prioritizes emotional annihilation over technical display. Active since 2015, the project is a severe and uncompromising voice from the American South's extreme metal underground.

A Massachusetts depressive black metal project active since 2017, Mourning Moonlight pursue the most introspective and despairing end of the genre — raw, lo-fi, and built around an aching, solitary intensity.

Emerging from La Cienega, New Mexico in 2023, Murkurselv play depressive black metal with the high-desert isolation of northern New Mexico running through every note — sparse, grief-saturated, and shaped by a landscape that feels removed from the rest of the world. The name itself has a Nordic quality that signals familiarity with DSBM's Scandinavian roots.

Maple Grove, Minnesota's My Lost Innocence work the depressive black metal vein since 2025, trading in raw, desolate atmospheres and the cold emotional weight that defines the DSBM tradition.

A depressive black metal project out of Sacramento, California, My Useless Life traffics in the suffocating misery and lo-fi aesthetics that define the DSBM underground, delivering bleak, introspective compositions that lean heavily on raw atmosphere over technical polish.