Rooted in the forests and rolling hills of central Virginia, Hellfarer weave folk instrumentation and pagan atmosphere into black metal's cold fire since 2016. The result feels genuinely Appalachian — haunted, earthy, and proud of its distance from the mainstream.

Crushing Heavy / Groove Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.

San Diego's HellFynder fuses the reckless velocity of black/thrash metal into an unrelenting attack since 2020, taking equal inspiration from the second wave and the first-wave speed merchants. They are lean, aggressive, and direct — genre devotees with fangs intact.

Atlanta's Hellgoat stand as one of the American black metal underground's more enduring presences, delivering uncompromising darkness since 2016 with a deliberately primitive and warlike approach. No concessions, no polish — just the void made loud.

Fuzzed-out Stoner Rock / Metal from San Antonio.

Chesterton, Indiana's Hellgrind have been grinding out punishing death metal from the industrial Midwest since 2019, their sound shaped by the region's working-class grit and no-frills aggression. Straight-ahead and ferocious, they owe nothing to subtlety.

Kalamazoo, Michigan's Hellhole channel the sweeping melodic death metal tradition into tight, riff-driven songs that balance brutality with songcraft since 2013. Melody and violence coexist in their work without either element compromising the other.

Hellish Form push doom to its most suffocating extreme, folding sludge's abrasive texture into funeral doom's glacial pace and near-unbearable weight. Formed in 2020, they embrace desolation as an art form — slow, suffocating, and strangely beautiful.

Short-lived black/thrash n roll in the vein of Destroyer 666, Midnight, and Bathory. Active 2014-2016.