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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Raw black metal project from Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, active since 2016. The project delivers lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the Volga delta.
Rotten Moon is a raw black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2024. The project delivers lo-fi, unpolished black metal from Finland's third-largest city.
Texas act Rougarou, formed in 2024, takes their name from the Cajun werewolf legend and channels it into raw black metal laced with folk elements — an unsettling mix that roots their sound in regional myth and primitive riffing. It's an early but sharp-edged project with a distinctly American folkloric slant.
Raw black metal project from Hampshire, England, formed in 2021. The project delivers lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the English south.
Raw black metal and ambient project from the tiny Piedmont village of Benevello, active since 2005 and channeling isolation through lo-fi extremity. Their rural origins in the Langhe wine country lend an authentically desolate quality to their sound.
Rurbania is a raw black metal and dungeon synth project from the Grand Est region of northeastern France, formed in 2024. The project merges raw black metal with medieval dungeon synth atmospherics.
Rusty Forest is a raw black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, formed in 2019. The project channels frigid, lo-fi black metal with ambient undercurrents from deep within the West Siberian oil country.
Ruumisarkku is a raw black metal project from Finland, formed in 2024. Named after the Finnish word for 'coffin,' the project delivers lo-fi black metal in the rawest Finnish tradition.
Sofia-based project that evolved from raw black metal origins in 2019 toward a black/death metal hybrid. Their name, meaning "fear" in Bulgarian, reflects the menacing intensity of their sound as it has expanded across extreme metal's aggressive spectrum.
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