Pennsylvania's Veiled operate in the black metal underground with intentional obscurity, a 2022 project whose anonymity reinforces the music's atmosphere of concealment and menace. What little emerges from behind the veil is bleak and unadorned.

Pennsylvania's Verminform apply a black metal framework obsessed with degradation and subterranean dread, active since 2020 in the tradition of the American underground. Sparse, hateful, and deliberately repellent — exactly as designed.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania post-black metal project formed in 2022, their name evoking submersion and drowning against the backdrop of the city's steel-gray skies and industrial waterways. Vodoem reaches beyond traditional black metal's orthodoxy into atmospheric, introspective territory, building music with emotional depth alongside its darker impulses.

Barely a year old, Vulnera arose from the rural quiet of Hallstead, Pennsylvania in 2024, pursuing a strain of depressive black metal that leans heavily on atmosphere and desolation. The isolation of small-town northeastern Pennsylvania seems to inform every note of their bleak, introspective sound.