Los Angeles melodic black/death metal project blending Scandinavian-influenced tremolo work with death metal heft. Absence of Light established their template of atmospheric extremity with a melodic core.

New York black metal project whose 2019 debut Silence Under The Sun pairs nihilistic philosophy with atmospheric black metal. The name's compressed formatting and the album's cosmic bleakness suggest a modern, post-industrial approach to the genre.

Oakland death metal legends and architects of the death-doom subgenre. Their Bandcamp catalog includes Dead as..., representing one chapter of a career that fundamentally shaped extreme music worldwide. Chris Reifert and company created the template for merging death metal's fury with doom's crushing pace.

A one-man blackened heavy metal project from Sidney, Ohio, Bartzabel has been active since 2020, exploring occult and fantastical themes alongside personal reflections on love and free thought.

Frigid Depressive Black Metal out of Texas.

Battle Ground, Washington one-person project CHVD crafts desolate, introspective depressive black metal characterized by icy tremolo lines and suffocating bleakness. The project leans into isolation and despair as core aesthetic anchors.

Eugene, Oregon's Cold Frozen Grave specialize in depressive black metal soaked in Pacific Northwest desolation — lo-fi, anguished, and cold, their music sounds as if it was recorded in a forest at midnight.

Hailing from the rust-belt city of Erie, Pennsylvania, Cold in the Soul trades in depressive black metal that mirrors the grey, lake-effect bleakness of their hometown — slow-burning and harrowing.

Cold Inside crafts suffocating depressive black metal that turns inward rather than outward, favoring minimalist dread and spiraling repetition over spectacle — a project defined entirely by desolation.

Out of Chesterton, Indiana — a small Lake Michigan dune town wedged between Chicago and nowhere — Coldness channels depressive black metal's isolation and misery with the conviction of a project that clearly means every note.

Orange County's Coldvoid deals in the depressive strain of black metal — raw, stripped-down, and uncomfortably personal — a project that rejects Southern California's warmth in favor of atmospheric emptiness.

Clarksville, Tennessee's Consider the Following; Suicide are a depressive black metal project steeped in raw anguish and lo-fi despair, drawing from DSBM's most isolationist and emotionally devastating traditions.

Monterey, California depressive black metal project wrapping bleak atmospheric passages around raw, tremolo-driven guitars. Their music channels desolation and existential weight through cold, layered production.

Ohio's Crepuscular Night channel the coldest and most desolate strains of depressive black metal into minimalist, emotionally harrowing compositions. Their music sits in the bleakest corner of the American underground black metal scene.

Ellsworth, Maine depressive black metal project drawing on the isolation and darkness of New England's remote north. Their music is bleak, introspective, and unrelenting in its emotional desolation.