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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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Fresh out of Chicago's underground in 2024, Geistwolfe play raw black metal with the immediacy of a project that has something to prove. Minimally produced and aggressive, they are among the city's newest additions to the raw black metal tradition.
A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.
Gergesenes is a raw black metal/ambient project from London, formed in 2019. Named after the biblical site of Christ's encounter with the possessed man, they blend raw black metal with ambient passages in a spiritually charged framework.
Raw black metal project from Krasnoyarsk in central Siberia, launched in 2024 and stripping the genre to its most primal essence. Their lo-fi approach embraces the harshness and minimalism that defines raw black metal's underground ethos.
Washington state's GLA operate in the most unfiltered and deliberately lo-fi end of raw black metal, stripping the genre down to static, spite, and atmosphere. A 2022 project for those who want their black metal as abrasive as possible.
Glaisemort is a raw black metal project from Clermont-Ferrand, France, formed in 2026, self-described as 'urban rot worship,' blending raw black metal, lo-fi production, dark ambient, and noise aesthetics. Their four-track demo includes a Lifelover cover alongside original compositions exploring shame and silence.
Raw, unpolished, and deliberately hostile, Glaive strips black metal back to its most primitive essentials — primitive tremolo lines, blizzard-blast drumming, and vocals dragged up from the frost. A project born in 2020 with no interest in compromise.
Glemt is a raw black metal project from London, formed in 2019. Their Norwegian name — meaning 'forgotten' — brings Scandinavian character to their raw London-based black metal.
GM-1 is a raw black metal project from Santander, Spain, formed in 2016, delivering lo-fi, stripped-down black metal from the Cantabrian coast. The project channels cold, uncompromising rawness from northern Spain.
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