Formed in the bleak flatlands of Minot, North Dakota, Ghost Bath emerged in 2013 as one of the most emotionally raw voices in depressive post-black metal. Their shimmering, tear-soaked tremolo lines and tortured shrieking vocals frame a sound that sits somewhere between suicidal black metal and transcendent beauty.

Bergenfield, New Jersey's Granuloma pursue the atmospheric and post-black metal strains of the genre with textural density and emotional weight. Since 2018 they've constructed a sound that festers slowly, like the tissue condition they're named after.

Portland's Grieven arrived in 2024 with a sound that bridges atmospheric post-black metal and hardcore's confrontational energy — introspective one moment and violently direct the next. It's a tension that feels native to the city and to the band.