Columbus, Ohio gothic metal band weaving dark atmosphere, heavy guitar work, and melancholic melody into brooding compositions. Cursed Be draws on the gothic metal tradition with an emotionally resonant and gloomy aesthetic.

Columbus, Ohio's Eris blends gothic atmosphere with death metal brutality, wrapping funereal melodic sensibility around downtuned heaviness in a way that feels both elegiac and aggressive. Formed in 2019, the project channels the goddess of discord into music that holds beauty and destruction in unresolved tension.

Columbus, Ohio's Grael began life trading in gothic doom and pivoted toward psychedelic stoner territory, tracing a natural arc from shadow to smoke. Their music carries an underlying mysticism that connects both phases of their evolution.

Soulless is a Cleveland, Ohio melodic death and thrash metal band with roots stretching back to 1998. One of Ohio's longer-running extreme metal acts, they combine the melodic sensibility of Swedish-influenced death metal with thrash's technical aggression.

Sverker is a Newark, Ohio depressive black and gothic metal project formed in 2020, blending the anguished minimalism of depressive black metal with gothic atmosphere and introspective darkness.

Cincinnati's Thorns of the Carrion have been building their atmospheric gothic doom/death sound since 2000, blending the mournful grandeur of gothic metal with death metal weight and doom's measured pace. The long-running Ohio act occupies a space where beauty and decay intertwine across decades of output.

Columbus, Ohio band weaving Gothic gloom into melodic death metal, pairing the melancholic atmosphere of the Gothic tradition with driving riffs and death metal aggression. Active since 2022, they occupy the darkly romantic space between mid-era Paradise Lost and Scandinavian melodeath.