Chico, California depressive black metal project with post-rock underpinnings, formed in 2024 at the intersection of suicidal black metal's emotional rawness and post-rock's expansive dynamics. New but already committed to total atmospheric immersion.

Shrouded in anonymity, Eternal Damnation channel the rawest currents of depressive black metal into recordings that feel genuinely isolated and desolate. Since 2019 they have operated as a solitary vessel for despair.

California's Eternal Misery take the savagery of black, death, and thrash metal and run them through the same blender without pausing for breath. Active since 2012, they are a no-frills extremity machine with consistent venom.

Portland's Eternal Valley has dwelled in depressive black metal's most harrowing corners since 2013, building slow-burning walls of despair that feel as bleak and grey as the city's winters.

Formed in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2024, Faded Memories works in the depressive black metal tradition — slow, suffocating, and deeply personal, built around the genre's hallmark of turning inner anguish into cold, minimalist noise.

A Connecticut project blending depressive black metal with the skeletal tension of post-punk, Geflimmernacht has been crafting bleak, introspective soundscapes from Mansfield since 2020. The German name translates loosely to 'flickering night,' and the music lives up to the image.

Named for the Questing Beast of Arthurian legend — a creature heard but never fully seen — Bloomington, Indiana's Glatisant pursues depressive black metal into abstract, haunted spaces. Their music has the quality of something searching endlessly without resolution.

San Antonio's Gothenbvrg take depressive black metal's most isolationist impulses and filter them through Texas heat since 2018 — spelling the city name in archaic script signals exactly the kind of grim romanticism the music embodies.

St. Petersburg, Florida's Hanashi explore the atmospheric and depressive ends of black metal, their dense, mournful sound a striking contrast to Florida's reputation as a death metal state. Active since 2015.

San Diego's Hanging Garden have cultivated a strain of depressive black metal since 2013 that leans heavily into isolation and despair, letting long, suffocating passages take root in the mind.

Frigid Depressive Black Metal from Sarasota, Florida (early); San Antonio, Texas / France (later).

Hatefog emerged from Aberdeen, Washington in 2024 — Kurt Cobain's rainy hometown — with depressive black metal steeped in the Northwest's characteristic bleakness. Sparse, desolate, and drenched in the kind of grey that comes from overcast skies rather than theatrical performance.

Born from the grey skies of Seattle in 2024, IFeelSick channels the rawness of depressive black metal into unfiltered expressions of anguish — lo-fi and visceral, with no interest in comfort.

Los Angeles depressive black metal project Klär has been excavating the genre's most desolate emotional terrain since 2012. Beneath the city's sprawl and glare, the project carves out a space of suffocating melancholy and slow-burning atmospheric despair.

Venomous Depressive Black Metal from Houston.