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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 Buckingham, active since 2017 and dedicated to the lo-fi, unpolished aesthetic of raw black metal. Their name, meaning "war shadow" in Norwegian, signals allegiance to Scandinavian black metal's most primitive and hostile currents.
Raw black metal project from Madrid, formed in 2026 and delivering deliberately lo-fi, primitive compositions. Their blasphemous name signals the provocative, uncompromising nature of their raw black metal.
Experimental raw black metal project from Oulu, formed in 2024 and pushing black metal's boundaries through unconventional approaches. Their distinctive Finnish name adds an enigmatic quality to their boundary-breaking sound.
Raw black metal project from Santander in Cantabria, active since 2012 and delivering lo-fi, stripped-back black metal from Spain's northern coast. Their cold, unpolished aesthetic embraces the most primitive traditions of the genre.
Atmospheric/raw black metal project from Brandenburg, formed in 2023 and bridging the seemingly contradictory poles of atmosphere and rawness. Their sound emerges from the sparse, flat landscapes east of Berlin.
Straddling the line between black metal and raw black metal, this Norwegian act fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Raw black metal project from Saint-Dizier in northeastern France, formed in 2021 and trafficking in lo-fi, unpolished black metal stripped to its most primitive elements. The project embraces the genre's underground ethos with minimal production and maximum hostility.
Raw black metal project from Jyvaskyla, formed in 2020 with a Finnish name meaning "misery" or "poverty." Their lo-fi, stripped-back approach embodies the destitution suggested by their name.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels black metal and raw black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2022, based in Moscow, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
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