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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Rock Springs, Wyoming's Cavernlord operate in the raw space between black metal and doom, crafting cold, isolated music that reflects the barren, unforgiving landscape of the high desert.
Shasta, California's Caverns practice raw, lo-fi black metal leaning heavily into the primitive, underground aesthetic with sparse, tape-hiss-drenched recordings and bleak melodic sensibility.
Raw black metal project originating from Hampshire/Sussex, now based in Manchester, England, active since 2009. Caina craft avant-garde, emotionally intense black metal that pushes the genre's boundaries.
Operating from the remote isolation of Kenai, Alaska, Celestial Annihilation deliver raw black metal with frostbitten, geographically appropriate desolation — thin, razor-edged production and relentless blasting.
Celestial Sword is a raw black metal project with an emphasis on nocturnal and cosmic themes, active in the underground split-release community alongside acts such as LLYR, Nightmare Ecstasy, Nocturnal Effigy, Adrasteia, and Upir. Releases include "Nocturnal Divinity," "Nocturne of the Mourning Moon," and "Constellations of Fatality and Metamorphosis."
Raw black metal band from Vigo, Spain, emerging in 2026. They channel Celtic and pagan themes through primitive, stripped-down black metal from Galicia.
Cemeterial Aura is a raw black metal project from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dedicated to the lo-fi, primitive aesthetic of raw black metal — hypnotic tremolo riffing, cold production, and a deliberately abrasive, anti-polished presentation.
Raw black metal project from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cer delivers stripped-down, lo-fi black metal from the Dutch heartland.
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