One of the older acts in the American underground, Jackson, Michigan's Wind of the Black Mountains have been producing raw, orthodox black metal since 1996 — nearly thirty years of fidelity to a sound that most fair-weather fans abandoned long ago. They represent the true American black metal underground: isolated, uncompromising, and indifferent to trends.

Massachusetts-based Wind Walkers have spent over a decade refining their blend of metalcore aggression with pop-infused melodies and post-hardcore dynamics. Since adding vocalist Trevor Borg in 2023, the band has entered a bold new chapter on Fearless Records, fearlessly combining modern metal heaviness with irresistible hooks on releases like the EP 'I Don't Belong Here.'

Elizabeth, New Jersey's Windfaerer have been weaving black metal ferocity together with folk instrumentation and melody since 2009, creating an atmospheric hybrid rooted equally in pagan tradition and modern extreme metal. Their New Jersey origins are easy to forget when the music is this sweeping — Windfaerer conjure landscapes far removed from the Garden State's industrial corridor.

Richmond, Virginia's Windhand are one of the defining acts of the American stoner-doom revival, forming in 2013 and quickly establishing themselves with heavily distorted, slow-motion riffs and vocals that float ethereally above the crush. Richmond's fertile underground scene gave them room to develop a sound that is both undeniably heavy and hauntingly beautiful.

Brooklyn's Winds of Gladsheimr have been conjuring Norse-influenced black metal in New York City since 2016, drawing on the mythological imagery and atmospheric sweep of Scandinavian black metal while rooting it in one of the world's most urban environments — a contrast that only sharpens the music's otherworldly quality. Their work is dense with atmosphere and pagan intent.

Formed in Upland, California in 2002 under the name Bleak December before renaming in 2005, Winds of Plague are among the few deathcore bands to prominently integrate symphonic elements — orchestral keyboards, choir arrangements — into the genre's blast-beat and breakdown architecture. Their Century Media debut Decimate the Weak (2008) brought the approach to a wide audience, and subsequent albums including The Great Stone War (2009) and Against the World (2011) expanded their reach within the symphonic deathcore niche. The band has remained active through multiple lineup changes over two decades.

Winds of Tragedy is a melodic black/doom metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2021 and signed to Tragedy Productions. The band has been prolific since their debut, releasing two full-lengths and an EP in 2022, followed by "Hating Life" in 2023 and "Death Wash Over Me" in 2024.

Savage Death Metal from San Antonio.

Suffocating Black / Doom Metal from Dallas.