Long Island's Faceless Hatred have been running a blackened thrash and crust hybrid since 2011, pulling equally from the filth of d-beat and the cold aggression of black metal.

New York's FaFo is a fresh-formed black/death metal act that arrived in 2025 with an unambiguous name and an equally direct approach: punishing extremity without apology, rooted in the rawest currents of both parent genres.

Out of Allegany, New York, Galdranaht emerged in 2022 with a raw black metal sound rooted in isolation and ritual — spare, unadorned, and true to the genre's adversarial origins.

A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.

Taking its name from one of H.P. Lovecraft's most obscure deities, New York's Ghatanothoa blends dungeon synth and dark ambient with black metal, conjuring something genuinely arcane. Formed in 2021, they sit at the spectral edge of the black metal underground.

Named after a demon of transformation, Long Island's Haagenti began with melodic death metal roots before evolving into a heavier, more unrelenting death metal sound over their decade-plus existence. Their trajectory mirrors the demonic namesake — a gradual, deliberate shift into something darker.

Out of Greenwood Lake, New York, Hail Batlord emerged in 2022 with a stripped-down, ferocious approach to black metal. Unadorned and unapologetic, they lean into the raw primitiveness the genre was built on.

Brooklyn's Hammerhoid have been gleefully ransacking the intersection of speed, thrash, and black metal since 2014, their New York City chaos lending the music an urgency that straight-up retro acts rarely achieve.

Brooklyn's Hand of Glory take the occult imagery suggested by their name and translate it into black metal that feels rooted in genuine darkness rather than posture. Active since 2019 in New York City's dense underground.