Richmond's Obsessor sit at the grimy intersection of thrash, crossover, and punk, combining the velocity of skateboard-era aggression with the tighter construction of metal riffing. Since 2016, they've been one of Virginia's most reliable purveyors of fast, chaotic, unhinged heaviness.

Los Angeles death metal project Obsidian Hooves emerged in 2020 with a sound that's dense, occult-tinged, and built around suffocating low-end weight. They draw from the genre's most primitive instincts while maintaining a distinctly L.A. sense of menace.

San Diego's Obsidian Rite began in doom before gravitating toward black metal's harsher cold, and the tension between those two impulses gives their music its distinctive, brooding character. Formed in 2023, they're already building something that feels genuinely ominous.

Virginia's Obsidian Sorrow launched in 2024 as a death/thrash project with an appetite for controlled chaos — punishing tempos, riff-forward aggression, and a clear reverence for the genre's most ferocious roots. Fresh out of the Suffolk underground with something to prove.

Ruthless Melodic Death Metal from Fort Worth.

Tucson's Obsidion bring desert heat to power metal's soaring register, blending arena-ready heaviness with the melodic ambition of classic US power metal. Since 2017, they've been one of Arizona's sharpest acts in the genre.

Chicago's Obskurum carve out black metal that feels at home in an urban landscape — cold, isolating, and relentless, shaped by the Midwest's grey winters and underground metal culture. Formed in 2020, they bring a rawness to the Windy City's extreme scene that refuses to be polished away.

California's Occult Mountain traffic in raw black metal and dungeon synth with the lo-fi intensity of a project that has nothing to prove to anyone. Born in 2025, their sound is primitive, isolated, and entirely committed to the underground's most uncompromising traditions.

New Jersey's Ocean of Illusions pull deathcore's metallic breakdown energy into genuine death metal territory, building a sound that hits with weight and purpose rather than spectacle. Formed in 2015, they've been quietly hardening their edge ever since.