New York black metal project whose 2019 debut Silence Under The Sun pairs nihilistic philosophy with atmospheric black metal. The name's compressed formatting and the album's cosmic bleakness suggest a modern, post-industrial approach to the genre.

Long Island's Darkness Incarnate arrived in 2023 with Farmingdale black metal steeped in the raw, stripped-back aesthetics of the genre's underground tradition. New York's outer boroughs and suburban zones have long cultivated extreme metal out of the spotlight, and this project continues that lineage.

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.

Somber Ire is a New York depressive black metal project formed in 2018, channeling anguish and desolation through the bleak, minimalist aesthetic that defines the DSBM subgenre.