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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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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.
A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Piteå-based black metal and raw black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2023, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Raw black metal project from Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2008 and delivering deliberately lo-fi, stripped-back compositions. Their name meaning "colder" signals an even more extreme commitment to sonic frigidity than their implied peers.
Raw black metal project from Saint-Nazaire on France's Atlantic coast, formed in 2022. Their releases, including Gräahll and a self-titled record, channel the lo-fi aggression and primal fury of the raw black metal underground.
Turkish raw black metal project from Zonguldak, formed in 2024 and channeling lo-fi hostility. Their approach brings raw black metal's unpolished fury to the Turkish underground.
Philadelphia's Lake of Bile emerged in 2025 with raw black metal corroded by noise, trading atmosphere for corrosion and melody for abrasion. They represent the most caustic end of Philly's burgeoning underground black metal scene.
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