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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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Goatness is a raw black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014 and dealing in the most primitive and hostile strains of black metal. The project channels lo-fi aggression and uncompromising extremity.
Out of Russellville, Alabama, Goatscorge operate at the rawest edges of black/death metal, where production quality is an afterthought and atmosphere is everything. Since 2019, they've served up unfiltered sonic ugliness from deep in the American South.
GoatVomit Voidkvlt is a raw black metal project from Croatia, formed in 2019. Their deliberately extreme name signals the uncompromising lo-fi black metal they channel from the Croatian underground.
Goblin Festival is a raw black metal project from Finland, formed in 2020, whose debut eleven-track demo features goblin-themed atmospheric black metal including the standout Infernal Chant of the Insane Goblin. Their sound merges dark metal atmospheres with fantastical, eccentric thematic material.
Graben is a raw black metal project from the Bugey area of eastern France, active since 2014 and trafficking in stripped-down, lo-fi black metal hostility. The project channels unrelenting bleakness through its primitive approach to the genre.
Pennsylvania's Grabesruhe — a German word for the silence of the grave — crafts raw black metal draped in lo-fi menace and cold isolation. Since 2019 the project has pursued the bleakest end of the underground with uncompromising hostility.
Gravehymm is a raw black metal project from England, formed in 2017. They channel stripped-down, lo-fi black metal from the British underground.
Gravlagt is a raw black metal project from Bern, Switzerland, whose 2026 debut demo Geister der Walachei ("Ghosts of Wallachia") comprises three tracks of grim, German-language black metal released on a limited run of fifty hand-numbered cassettes. The project draws thematic inspiration from Eastern European folklore and burial rites.
Green Mist operate in the raw, unpolished margins of black metal — thin production, corrosive guitar tones, and a cold atmosphere that seeps in like fog. Active since 2021, this project finds its power in intentional austerity rather than studio polish.
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