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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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Utrecht, Netherlands — black metal and raw black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2016, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Raw black metal project from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, formed in 2025 and delivering lo-fi, stripped-back compositions. Their Finnish name meaning "chamber" evokes the claustrophobic, enclosed atmosphere of their raw sound.
New York raw black metal project Kaosreich offers nothing in the way of polish or compromise — just corrosive, lo-fi black metal in the most primitive tradition since their 2021 formation. The rawness is the point.
Bellevue, Washington's Kaphogh have been carving out raw black metal terrain in the Seattle suburbs since 2020, bringing a deliberately rough and abrasive aesthetic to a corner of the Pacific Northwest known more for progressive and experimental sounds. Uncompromising and intentionally primitive.
Dutch black metal and raw black metal act, active since 2017 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the Low Countries' prolific death metal tradition, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Raw black metal from the small Hudson Valley city of Port Jervis, New York, Karcinosin have been cultivating a corrosive, stripped-down approach to the genre since 2020. Their music carries the cold isolation of rural upstate New York in every crumbling, lo-fi riff.
Raw black metal project from London, formed in 2021 and dedicated to the lo-fi, unprocessed end of the black metal spectrum. The project strips the genre down to its most primitive and hostile essentials.
Raw black metal project from Paris, formed in 2025 and delivering lo-fi, stripped-back compositions from the French capital. Their catalepsy-derived name evokes the death-like trance at the core of their raw sound.
Raw black metal project from Kothen in Saxony-Anhalt, active since 2015 and delivering deliberately lo-fi, stripped-back compositions. Their unpolished aesthetic embraces the most primitive traditions of the genre.
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