New York's Samoubiystvo — the name translating roughly to "suicide" in Russian — operates in the depressive black metal underground since 2024 with the solitary intensity the subgenre demands. The project works in darkness by design, crafting music that feels internal and desolate, built from raw black metal's most harrowing emotional register.

New York's Serling arrived in 2021 with a stripped-down black metal approach — raw, atmospheric, and rooted in the cold intensity that defines underground USBM, named with a nod to the state's tradition of uncompromising darkness.

New York's Shadowlord — a distinct entity from the Massachusetts band of the same name — have channeled black metal's corrosive energy since 2011 in a state with a long history of underground extremism. Their output fits within the American black metal scene's ongoing engagement with raw, uncompromising second-wave aesthetics.

From Mahopac, New York, Silvaplana is a 2024 experimental black metal project that extends into dark ambient territory — named after the alpine Swiss lake, the band builds its sound around cold atmosphere and formal experimentation rather than conventional metal aggression.

Westchester, New York's Simple Satan cross black metal with punk sensibility, formed in 2021 in the stripped-down, confrontational tradition where the two genres have always had a natural affinity. Their approach prioritizes attitude and venom over technical elaboration.

New York's Sire Languish is one of the newest acts in this index, formed in 2025, pushing experimental black and death metal into unconventional territory with an approach that resists genre rigidity from the outset.

Skeletal Mass is a Brooklyn, New York black metal act formed in 2023, entering a borough with a crowded extreme metal underground and staking their claim with what appears to be a stripped-down, orthodox approach to the genre. Young as they are, they represent the continuing health of New York City's grassroots black metal scene.

Out of Valhalla, New York — a town whose name suits the project well — Skovtåge has been playing black metal since 2021, the Danish name (meaning 'forest fog') matched by music that evokes dim woodland atmospheres and old-world darkness.

Formed in Syracuse, New York in 2024, Slaves of the Void pursue melodic black/death metal that balances icy tremolo-driven black metal atmosphere with the harmonic complexity of melodic death metal. As a very new act, they bring fresh energy to upstate New York's underground metal community.