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Raw black metal project from Málaga, Spain active since 2013. Wamphyre channels vampiric darkness through lo-fi black metal from the sun-drenched coast of Andalusia.
Wampyric Rites is a raw black metal band from Loja, Ecuador, formed in 2019 by members operating under the monikers Wampyric Strigoi and Eblis Destructor. Their music centers on themes of vampirism and darkness, drawing from the primitive end of the black metal spectrum, and they have released a steady stream of demos, splits, and EPs since their inception, culminating in the full-length debut Under the Tragic Fullmoon of the Vampire in 2026 on Inferna Profundus Records.
Wanadi is a raw black metal project from Brazil, formed in 2025. The project made its debut with the demo Marchando Para A Batalha (Marching to Battle), establishing a primitive and belligerent sound typical of the Brazilian underground raw black metal tradition.
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Russellville, Alabama's What Brings Ruin have been conjuring raw black metal and noise since 2019 from a small Northwest Alabama city that is not traditionally associated with the genre — which is precisely what gives the project its claustrophobic intensity. Raw black metal demands isolation and contempt for comfort, and operating from the rural American South provides both in abundance. Abrasive, unadorned, and made somewhere that most people will never think to look.
Raw black metal project from Portugal formed in 2021. Wheel of Torture channels medieval punishment imagery through lo-fi raw black metal.
Raw black metal project from Osnabrück/Oldenburg, Germany emerging in 2024 with releases including Ketzergeyst, Schattentod in der Leibeswelt, and a 2024 demo. Their German-language titles reflect heretical and dark spiritual themes channeled through uncompromising raw black metal.
Morgantown, West Virginia's Winterfell occupy the rawest, most primitive end of the black metal spectrum — raw black metal laced with ambient elements, formed in 2019 in the isolation of Appalachian West Virginia. The region's wild, forested landscape and cultural remove from metal's mainstream centers makes it a natural home for music this stripped and unfiltered.
Hailing from Topsfield, Massachusetts — a town whose name sits a short distance from the actual Salem Witch Trials geography — Witch Hill formed in 2019 and make raw black metal steeped in regional darkness. The lo-fi aesthetic is deliberate, all hiss and cold tremolo, evoking the fog of colonial New England horror. They are a project that wears its geographic and historical context like a second skin.
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