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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Gandr is a raw black metal project from Lappeenranta, Finland, formed in 2018, delivering stripped-down, lo-fi black metal with an unpolished and primal aesthetic. Their sound embraces the most abrasive and minimalist tendencies of the raw black metal underground.
Gargromog is a raw black metal project from Buckingham in southeast England, formed in 2025. They bring lo-fi black metal to the genteel English Home Counties.
Gauekogogoak is a raw black metal collective from France, formed in 2021, operating under the banner of the 'Tagotís Gauak collective' with Basque-language release titles like Sorginen Hilobitik and Amesgaiztoko Zurrunbiloa. Their sound channels raw, unpolished black metal through a distinctly Basque cultural lens.
Gazat is a raw black metal project from London, formed in 2022. They deliver stripped-down, lo-fi black metal from the vast London underground scene.
Gegenschein is a raw black metal/ambient project from Kingston upon Hull in East Yorkshire, active since 2010. Named after the astronomical phenomenon of light reflected from cosmic dust, they blend raw black metal with ambient textures from the Humber estuary.
Geheimnisvoll is a raw black metal project from somewhere in the United States, deliberately obscured and unpolished in the best tradition of the underground. Since 2019, the project has leaned into lo-fi production as an aesthetic weapon rather than a limitation.
Fresh out of Chicago's underground in 2024, Geistwolfe play raw black metal with the immediacy of a project that has something to prove. Minimally produced and aggressive, they are among the city's newest additions to the raw black metal tradition.
A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.
Gergesenes is a raw black metal/ambient project from London, formed in 2019. Named after the biblical site of Christ's encounter with the possessed man, they blend raw black metal with ambient passages in a spiritually charged framework.
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