Westchester, New York's Torch and Sword emerged in 2020 as a raw black metal project that strips the genre back to its most primitive and confrontational form — crude production, relentless aggression, and an ethos that rejects the polished aesthetics of modern extreme metal. New York's dense underground has always had room for this kind of uncompromising work.

A New York black/thrash outfit formed in 2014, Tornádoe wields the caustic energy of first-wave black metal against a thrash backbone — primitive, fast, and deliberately abrasive.

New York black metal project Toten operate with the raw, underground intensity that defines the American black metal underground, pursuing uncompromising and atmospheric darkness away from any mainstream concessions.

Trollgrad is a Brooklyn-based folk and black metal band formed in 2023, weaving pagan-influenced melodic elements and folk instrumentation into a foundation of harsh black metal.

Tyrannus is an Albany, New York raw black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2019, inhabiting the lo-fi, primitive end of the black metal spectrum while incorporating the atmospheric, keyboard-driven textures of dungeon synth.

Rochester, New York's Unholy Semen have been combining black metal hostility with doom metal's dragging weight since 2005, building a sound that's as ugly as the name implies. Two decades in the underground have only made their contempt more refined.

A New York-based black metal project that surfaced in 2019, Vintertodt traffic in the frost-bitten atmospherics that define the second-wave tradition — cold, minimalist, and intentionally remote. Operating without much geographic fanfare, the project channels its energy into the music itself, favoring texture and mood over spectacle.

Formed in Buffalo in 2020, Vomit Hounds drag black and death metal through the industrial grit of upstate New York's underbelly. They strike at the intersection where cold, atmospheric black metal hostility collides with death metal's obsession with rot — a combination that suits Buffalo's long winters and grimmer instincts perfectly.

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.