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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Raw black metal project originating from Czechia, now based in Langasjo, Sweden, formed in 2024. They craft primitive, stripped-down black metal rooted in lo-fi aesthetics and uncompromising rawness.
Washington state's Chiasmus operates in the most uncompromising reaches of raw black metal, fusing its primitive savagery with death metal's heavier attack. The band strips the music down to its most corrosive, confrontational essence.
Los Angeles raw black metal act Christ Desecration traffic in primitive, lo-fi blasphemy in the Southern California underground tradition. Nothing clean, nothing polished, nothing forgiving.
Raw black metal project from Nowy Sącz in Lesser Poland, formed in 2020. Chtonian delivers lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Sądecka Valley.
Raw black metal project from Luxembourg, formed in 2020. Chzustch channels lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the small European nation.
Raw black metal project from Kętrzyn in the Masurian region, formed in 2020. Cierń — Polish for 'thorn' — channels lo-fi, abrasive black metal from northeastern Poland.
Raw black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, active since 2009. They strip black metal down to its most primal elements, delivering lo-fi ferocity in the tradition of the rawest underground.
Raw black metal band from Toulon, France, formed in 2023. They deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Var coast of Provence.
Clint X Eastwood is a raw black metal and grindcore band from Catanduva, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2023. The band's lyrical themes revolve around Clint Eastwood films, an unusual conceptual hook within the Brazilian underground extreme metal scene. They released a self-titled demo in May 2023, available on Bandcamp.
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