Houston occult doom/heavy metal. Dark, groovy, and dripping with evil.

Female-fronted psychedelic doom with vocalist Tiffany Marie over occult-themed compositions by KJLK. Released two records in 2014, blending heavy doom riffs with mythological and ritualistic atmosphere.

Dallas crossover thrash/hardcore. Fast and furious since the early 80s.

Kentucky's Verlorener Stolz — "lost pride" in German — take black metal's Germanic philosophical tradition seriously, crafting bleak, introspective music since 2017. Their choice of language signals a devotion to the form that goes well beyond surface aesthetics.

Flagstaff's Vermiform have been twisting melodic death and black metal together since 2011, creating something with the jagged edges of extremity and the structural ambition of melody. A decade-plus of refinement shows in music that bites hard and lingers long after.

Washington state's Vermin Messiah carry a name that distills their black metal worldview — contemptuous, heretical, and crawling with malevolent intention since 2021. Their approach favors atmosphere built from filth rather than grandeur.

Pennsylvania's Verminform apply a black metal framework obsessed with degradation and subterranean dread, active since 2020 in the tradition of the American underground. Sparse, hateful, and deliberately repellent — exactly as designed.

Verminizer appeared in 2023 as a stateless, anonymous entity fusing raw black metal with industrial noise and thrash metal brutality. The combination produces something genuinely machine-like in its hostility — mechanical, scabrous, and resistant to easy categorization.

York, Pennsylvania's Verminoth have been delivering death metal built for the underground since 2021, embracing the old-school aesthetic of rotten, cavernous brutality. Their name evokes something vast and many-limbed that hasn't seen daylight in a very long time.