Scranton, Pennsylvania's Morkander have been fusing black and doom metal since 2014, generating slow-building, oppressive heaviness from the industrial decay of a northeastern city that lends itself naturally to bleak, heavy music.

Pennsylvania black metal project Mors Umbra is one of the newer entries in the genre, formed in 2025 and dealing in the kind of unrelenting, shadow-heavy extremity the name implies. Still in their earliest stages, they represent the ongoing vitality of American black metal's underground grassroots.

Bucks County, Pennsylvania's Mountain Shadow are a newly formed (2024) project spanning an unusually wide stylistic range — atmospheric black metal, folk metal, death metal, doom, and death-doom — suggesting a band intent on using the full palette of extreme metal rather than settling into a single lane. The project's scope and ambition make it one of the more intriguing recent arrivals in the Pennsylvania underground.

A Philadelphia black metal act formed in 2022, Mourner of Light channel the cold, dissonant spirit of raw black metal with a distinct urban edge shaped by the dense, underground scene of the city.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Myrdød — whose name invokes death in a Nordic register — fuses black and death metal into a relentless, caustic hybrid that has pushed forward since 2020 with the kind of uncompromising darkness the name suggests.

Pennsylvania black metal act Necrourgica has been building a corpus of cold, abrasive work since 2013, rooted in the raw atmospheric traditions of the genre. Their music leans into dissonance and dread, favoring texture over accessibility.

Philadelphia's Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus — Finnish for "Nihilistic Barbarism" — has been crafting ambient black metal since 2012, marrying the frozen atmospherics of the Scandinavian tradition with a deeply introspective, almost meditative sensibility. The project stands apart in the American scene for its patient, textured approach, where atmosphere matters as much as ferocity.

Pittsburgh's Plague Witch arrived in 2020 with a melodic black/death metal sound that balances scorching ferocity with sharp, memorable songcraft — dark and relentless without sacrificing hooks.

Profane Elegy are a black metal project from Pennsylvania formed in 2023, entering the underground with a name that promises both desecration and mourning in equal measure. Emerging in a state with a quietly fertile black metal scene, they represent a new generation taking up the cold, austere aesthetics of the genre and shaping them into something with a contemporary sense of dread.