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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 from Finland active since 2013. They deliver uncompromising lo-fi black metal in the rawest Finnish tradition.
Boise raw black metal project Ergaster — named for the hominid ancestor Homo ergaster — channels something primal and evolutionary, stripping the genre down to its most feral, unpolished essentials.
Raw black metal project from France launched in 2022. They deliver lo-fi, uncompromising black metal in the rawest tradition.
Raw black metal project from Germany, formed in 2022, channeling primitive, lo-fi darkness through a deliberately unpolished aesthetic. Their evocative name describes the stripping away of divine illumination through raw, confrontational black metal.
San Diego's Erusopxecinomeddetaeperhguorhtserisednamuhllafonoitacidarecitametsys — whose name is itself an act of defiance against legibility — practices raw black metal in the most confrontational and uncompromising sense, rejecting accessibility at every level from naming to production to ideology. Formed in 2023, the project treats obscurantism as a principled stance.
Raw black metal project from France launched in 2019. They channel primal aggression through lo-fi black metal.
Practitioners of black metal, death metal, and grindcore, this Italian outfit from Milan has been refining their craft since 2018. Their sound hinges on weaponized brevity delivering maximum aggression in minimum time, delivered with unwavering intensity.
Raw black metal project from Portugal active since 2017. Their name — referencing the star Aldebaran — adds cosmic mysticism to an uncompromising raw black metal approach.
Raw black metal entity from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Estuary Battalion VII traffic in primitive, tape-warped hostility with no interest in polish or compromise. Since 2021 they have embraced the lo-fi aesthetic as a weapon in itself.
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