Aldegar is a folk/Viking metal band from Gig Harbor, Washington. Their 2016 full-length "The Peak" delivers eleven tracks of epic folk metal inspired by Norse mythology and Pacific Northwest grandeur.

Savannah, Georgia speed metal warriors with a Viking metal edge, blending Peach State grit with Norse mythology since 2018. Their EPs Artificial Intelligence and Shadow Work show a band evolving from pure velocity into more thematically ambitious territory.

Pasadena black metal project whose 2021 single features a vaporwave-styled title in full-width Unicode characters. A collision of internet aesthetics and black metal that signals something stranger and more modern than the ancient name suggests.

Moorhead, Minnesota's Citadel channel Nordic black metal fury through a Viking metal lens, crafting cold, atmospheric epics that evoke the frozen plains of the upper Midwest as much as ancient Scandinavia.

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.

Pittsburgh's Defeat began in the raw end of black metal before pivoting toward Viking metal's epic scope, evolving over a decade into something that carries both the grime and the grandeur of their influences.

Taking their name from Jewish folklore's restless spirit, Boulder, Colorado's Dybbuk have woven together Viking, folk, and black metal since 2012, creating a distinctly atmospheric brand of pagan metal grounded in mythological imagery and sweeping melodic sensibility.

Tucson's Eight Legged Horse take their name from Odin's mythic steed Sleipnir and have been fusing Viking metal mythology with progressive metal composition since 1980 — one of the few acts in either genre with a history stretching back to the earliest days of heavy metal itself.

Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.

Los Angeles black-death outfit Encased pull Viking metal's mythological weight into their sound alongside more brutal death metal elements, a broad extreme metal canvas that has kept them active since 2014.

Named for Odin's spear, Flint, Michigan's Gungnir arrived in 2024 with a mythologically charged approach to black metal — raw, atmospheric, and drawing on Norse imagery to give form to something fierce and uncompromising. A band with purpose already baked into the name.

Named after the rune representing hail and disruption, Hagalaz is a black metal project that fuses raw aggression with punk's irreverence, active since 2017. Their runic namesake suggests the chaotic and destructive intent baked into their music.

Philadelphia's Heathen of the North have been bringing Viking and folk metal's epic mythology to Southeastern Pennsylvania since 2012, melding battle-ready riffs with melodic folk instrumentation. Their music celebrates pre-Christian northern tradition with genuine reverence and compositional craft.

A folk and Viking metal band out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mjød wraps Norse mythology and pagan imagery in melodic metal arrangements, drawing on themes of winter, fate, and the old gods. Formed in 2017, their name — Old Norse for "mead" — signals an intent to conjure the atmosphere of a hall-fire past.

Out of Ashland, Kentucky, Nornsaga has been crafting Viking metal since 2018, a genre choice that stands out sharply against the American heartland backdrop. Their music draws on the Norse mythological tradition that defines the genre — heroic themes, melodic grandeur, and an epic sweep that aims for something timeless. That a project this devoted to Northern European mythology flourishes in Appalachian Kentucky speaks to the universality of the form's appeal.