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.

Portland, Oregon's None craft atmospheric and depressive black metal that leans heavily into the Pacific Northwest's capacity for sustained emotional darkness, layering textured guitar work over long-form compositions that resist resolution. Formed in 2020, the project operates in the tradition of DSBM acts that treat misery not as performance but as genuine artistic terrain, building music that is immersive and unsparing in equal measure. Their Bandcamp, slash-none, is a fitting handle for a project that positions itself as erasure rather than presence.

A Maryland depressive black metal and ambient project that emerged in 2025, Ravens Hike explores the bleaker end of the DSBM spectrum — isolation, atmosphere, and drone woven into slow-burning darkness. With their ambient influence, the project reaches beyond pure aggression into introspective, texturally rich territory.

New York's Samoubiystvo — the name translating roughly to "suicide" in Russian — operates in the depressive black metal underground since 2024 with the solitary intensity the subgenre demands. The project works in darkness by design, crafting music that feels internal and desolate, built from raw black metal's most harrowing emotional register.

California's Shadows of Depression arrived in 2025 with depressive black metal as their vehicle — long, suffocating compositions built around self-annihilation and emotional desolation. New to the scene but working within a well-mapped subgenre, their output leans hard into DSBM's characteristic minimalism and despair.

San Diego's Shrieking, formed in 2025, operate in the atmospheric and depressive wing of black metal, crafting bleak, suffocating soundscapes that lean into introspection and emotional desolation over aggression.

Eugene, Oregon's Sleff operate in the bleakest corner of black metal, channeling the isolation and despair of the depressive subgenre since 2012. Their music is defined by raw, minimal production and an atmosphere of complete desolation, making them a notable presence in the Pacific Northwest's darker underground.