Rapid City, South Dakota black metal project formed in 2020, Dísablót takes its name from a Norse sacrificial ceremony honoring the dísir — female ancestral spirits — situating the project squarely within heathen tradition. Their Dakotas origin lends an isolated, stark quality appropriate to their icy, pagan aesthetic.

Portland, Oregon thrash and crossover band formed in 2014, Dödläge fuses d-beat's hardcore-derived rhythmic stomp with crust punk's grime and thrash metal's riff attack into an unruly but focused hybrid. Portland's fertile punk and metal underground provides the ideal foundation for this kind of genre collision.

Alabama black metal project formed in 2016, Død (Norwegian for 'death') carries forward the stripped and confrontational spirit of raw black metal from an unlikely Southern US setting. The contrast between the Southern locale and the Nordic aesthetic is part of what gives the project its edge.

Formed in 2025 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Dùvraith works in the atmospheric black metal tradition, using cold, expansive textures and depressive undertones to build immersive soundscapes. A new arrival in the American atmospheric black metal scene, the project emerges from an otherwise rare corner of the South for this style.