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East Hampton, Connecticut's Murked arrived in 2023 with an atmospheric black metal approach that draws on New England's grey skies and dense forests for its oppressive, enveloping sound. The project inhabits the more expansive, textural wing of black metal, favoring mood over pure aggression.
Little Rock, Arkansas black metal act Murkryth have been conjuring cold, misanthropic atmospheres since 2019, operating in the raw, orthodox end of the genre with minimal concern for accessibility. Arkansas black metal is a small but stubbornly surviving scene, and Murkryth are one of its more committed participants.
Emerging from La Cienega, New Mexico in 2023, Murkurselv play depressive black metal with the high-desert isolation of northern New Mexico running through every note — sparse, grief-saturated, and shaped by a landscape that feels removed from the rest of the world. The name itself has a Nordic quality that signals familiarity with DSBM's Scandinavian roots.
Chicago's Murmur occupy the experimental and progressive wing of black metal, bending the genre's orthodoxies outward into unexpected structural and tonal territory since 2021. Operating with an exploratory ethos, they blend progressive complexity with black metal's dark foundation in a way that resists easy genre reduction.
A black metal project from Gothenburg, Murmurs emerged in 2025. The project channels the whispered intensity of their name into atmospheric, subtle black metal.
Murokhamma is an atmospheric/raw black metal project from the remote Kirov Oblast town of Kirovo-Chepetsk, formed in 2023. The project channels the isolation of the Vyatka river region into expansive, lo-fi black metal.
Out of Norwich, Connecticut, Murrum has been delivering raw, atmospheric black metal since 2013 with a sound rooted in the genre's second-wave coldness. Their work leans into dissonance and primitive intensity, fitting squarely within the underground New England black metal scene.
Murtuma is an industrial black and doom metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2024. They merge industrial coldness with black and doom metal's oppressive darkness.
Murustrictus is a black metal act from Aberdeen, active since 2012 and crafting cold, aggressive compositions from the Scottish northeast. The Latin-inflected name signals an academic edge to their misanthropic black metal.
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