Oakland post-black metal project formed in 2021 by Tony Thomas and Chelsea Murphy of Dawn of Ouroboros with ex-White Ward drummer Yurii Kononov, debuting on Debemur Morti Productions in 2022.

Oakland's Dawn of Ouroboros pursue progressive post-black metal with an open-ended curiosity that sets them apart from their Bay Area peers. Since 2019, they've built a sound of cyclical intensity — introspective, dissonant, and deeply textured, much like their serpent-devouring-itself namesake.

San Francisco's Deafheaven reshaped what post-black metal could look and sound like, fusing shoegaze's emotional luminosity with black metal's destructive force across landmark records that divided and energized the genre in equal measure. Since 2010, they've remained one of the most discussed and imitated bands in modern heavy music.

San Francisco's Deliria have been crafting atmospheric post-black metal since 2017, pushing beyond raw black metal orthodoxy into vast, dissonant soundscapes. Their music absorbs the fog and introspective weight of the Bay Area, fusing black metal's ferocity with the expansive textures of the post-metal and shoegaze traditions.

California's Dick Wolf have been navigating the space between raw black metal and post-black metal's more atmospheric impulses since 2012. Their sound resists easy categorization — bleak but textured, aggressive but willing to breathe, operating comfortably in the margins between the genre's orthodox and experimental wings.

San Francisco's Embrium thread post-black metal's expansive, textural qualities through shoegaze's luminous dissonance, arriving at something genuinely atmospheric. Founded in 2021, the band belongs to a current wave of Bay Area artists pushing black metal into introspective and sonically immersive territory.

Lancaster, California's Lacuna emerged in 2023 with post-black metal that trades in vast, desolate soundscapes sculpted from the high desert's silence. Their music fills the void between atmospheric black metal's coldness and something approaching transcendence.

San Francisco's Martikor arrived in 2023 at the intersection of atmospheric sludge and post-black metal, a combination that suits the Bay Area's tradition of genre-bending heaviness. Dense, fog-laden, and built for patience.

Los Angeles post-black metal and shoegaze act Morari have been crafting dense, layered compositions since 2017, blending black metal's tremolo intensity with the hazy, introspective textures of shoegaze in the Southern California sprawl.