Coral Springs, Florida's The Blind Beholder operate in the atmospheric and depressive wing of black metal, building music that uses the genre's cold, minimalist textures to conjure isolation and inward collapse rather than outward fury. Formed in 2018, they channel something genuinely bleak into their sound — the kind of heavy music that feels less like an assault than a slow disappearance.

There Is No Light Here is a New Hampshire depressive black metal project formed in 2022, crafting desolate, misanthropic soundscapes built on tremolo-heavy guitars and raw, anguished vocals. The project operates in the most stripped-down reaches of the DSBM spectrum, with an unrelenting focus on emotional desolation.

Thoughtless Mind is a US depressive black metal project that emerged in 2025, trading in the introspective bleakness and raw, minimalist production that define the DSBM subgenre. Still newly formed, the project's location is unknown, but its intent — to explore the darkest interior spaces through black metal — is unmistakable.

An Arkansas depressive black metal project active since 2014, Thy Tomb channels the subgenre's characteristic desolation and self-destructive despair through lo-fi production and plaintive, agonized compositions. Working from one of America's most underrepresented states in the extreme metal world, the project seems to draw its bleak energy from genuine isolation.

Out of Asheville's mountain mist, To Dwell in Longing craft depressive black metal steeped in misery and solitude, their 2019-formed project leaning into the rawness and anguish that defines the subgenre's most desolate corners.

Fort Smith, Arkansas depressive black metal project active since 2019, specializing in the suffocating, introspective strain of black metal where despair and atmosphere overwhelm technique. Isolated in the Ozarks, their music carries the weight of genuine regional solitude.

California atmospheric and depressive black metal project active since 2013, fusing the bleak introspection of DSBM with progressive rock structures to create expansive, emotionally consuming soundscapes.