Wilmington, Delaware's Sklo have been crafting progressive metal with rock-influenced textures since 2009, occupying a corner of the Delaware underground that leans into compositional depth and dynamic range rather than straightforward heaviness.

Colossal Doom / Post-Metal / Shoegaze out of Texas.

SKLP is an industrial metal project from Santiago, Chile, founded in late 2019 or early 2020, drawing inspiration from late 1980s and mid-1990s industrial metal. The project's name is a contraction of the Sanskrit word "sankalpa," reflecting its lyrical focus on self-transformation and the use of music as mantras and audio sigils.

Omaha's Skog (formed 2024) began in atmospheric black metal territory before shifting toward folk and thrash — a restless Midwestern project that draws on Norse woodland imagery and refuses to stay in one sonic lane.

California's Bay Area folk and Viking metal outfit Skogshallen have been active since 2011, layering Norse-inspired themes and folk instrumentation over heavy metal foundations in a region more associated with thrash — making them a genuinely distinct voice in the Northern California scene.

Cleveland, Ohio's Skogwulf, formed in 2026, bring black metal out of the Rust Belt with a name evoking forest wolves — a new voice in a city with a surprisingly deep underground tradition, channeling bleakness through the genre's most confrontational sonic textures.

Columbia, Missouri's Skooma have been deep in the stoner and doom underground since 2009, the band's name borrowed from Elder Scrolls fantasy lore as a fitting label for music built on hazy, repetitive riffs and slow, narcotic heaviness.

A black metal project from Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Skorbb have been active since 2017 in one of New England's smaller communities — crafting dense, uncompromising black metal that thrives in the anonymity and quiet of rural Rhode Island.

A Kentucky-based raw black metal project formed in 2020, Skorbvstr operates in the deliberately abrasive, minimalist tradition of the genre — lo-fi production and stripped-to-the-bone aggression serving as the project's defining aesthetic.