Cemetery Echo is a gothic metal band from Buffalo, New York, blending melancholic melodies and dark atmosphere with heavy guitar work and clean, emotionally expressive vocals drawn from the classic gothic metal tradition of Type O Negative and early Paradise Lost.

San Antonio's Chemical Warfare wages a thrash assault with the aggressive spirit of the Texas underground. Their music is fast, aggressive, and unapologetically rooted in the classic thrash tradition.

Detroit gothic metal outfit Choose Death traffic in dark, melodic heaviness shaped by the Motor City's long history of hard rock and alternative metal. Moody and atmosphere-driven.

Barstow, California's Chrysalis blends gothic metal's melancholy atmosphere with progressive metal's structural ambition, creating a dark, cinematic sound. Their music pairs heavy instrumentation with an emotionally expressive, layered approach.

Cloak formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013, founded by Scott Taysom and Sean Bruneau as a reaction to what they saw as a lack of dark, dangerous heavy music in the local scene. Signed to Season of Mist and later Metal Blade Records, the band combines traditional heavy metal structures with black metal atmospherics, black and roll energy, and gothic rock mood, citing Dissection, Deep Purple, and Fields of the Nephilim as core influences. Their third album Black Flame Eternal appeared in 2023.

Seattle's Cofgod blend doom, gothic metal, and stoner metal into heavy, atmospheric journeys that balance introspection with crushing weight, draped in the grey Pacific Northwest gloom.

Minneapolis's Cold Colours fuse death metal's brutality with gothic metal's mournful atmosphere, producing a sound that is both punishing and laced with a melancholic, darkly romantic quality.

Vancouver, WA doom and gothic metal band that fuses the melodrama of gothic metal with the heaviness of traditional doom. Their music is dark, theatrical, and drenched in atmosphere.

Portland, Oregon's Crimson Altar deal in traditional doom metal with a slow, crushing devotion to the genre's foundational heaviness. Their music evokes the Pacific Northwest's gray skies and introspective weight.