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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fierce raw black metal from Norway, contributing to the national scene since 2023. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Raw black metal project from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2024. Their lo-fi, ritualistic approach channels occult black metal from the Catalan underground.
Heretic Behest is a raw black metal project from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Athens, Georgia's Heroic Depletion specialize in raw black metal that is deliberately abrasive and deliberately lo-fi since 2019 — the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a state of genuine grievance. Primitive in all the ways that matter.
Atlanta's Hessian favor the unfiltered and abrasive end of black metal, trading atmosphere for confrontation in the raw black tradition. The project dispenses with polish entirely, prioritizing a corroded, static-soaked hostility.
Operating from Kolbotn, this raw black metal project has been shaping furious sound since 2018. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Hexe Maledicta is a raw black metal project from Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, active since 2024 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Bred in Grand Est's underground, this act delivers devastating raw black metal since 2017. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Rooted in Veszprém's underground, this raw black metal project delivers scorching compositions with conviction since 2015. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
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