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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Raw black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2020, channeling pagan darkness through raw, unpolished black metal from the cultural capital of Russia. They bring primordial fury to the Petersburg underground.
Raw black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2023, delivering paranoid, unpolished black metal. They bring anxious extremity to the Swedish underground.
Raw black metal and punk band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019, combining the aggression of raw black metal with punk's stripped-down urgency. Their name means 'fallow land' in Hungarian.
Raw black metal project from Italy, formed in 2024, combining irreverent provocation with raw black metal extremity. Their deliberately crude name signals an uncompromising approach to underground black metal.
Allendorf's Pitfall has been laying sonic traps with black metal since 2012, operating from the Hessian countryside for over a decade. Their Marburg-Biedenkopf district setting provides the rural solitude that feeds their atmospheric, nature-influenced compositions.
Raw black and death metal project from Denmark, formed in 2021, delivering unfiltered extremity at the intersection of black and death metal. They inhabit the most caustic fringes of the Danish underground.
Belgian raw black metal project formed in 2018, operating in the underground reaches of the country's extreme metal scene. Their releases include the full-length Maanlicht and a split with Cultor Noctis.
A 2020 German speed metal project with deliberately corrupted orthography, Poisöned Speed channels the first-wave spirit of Exciter and early Motörhead. Their umlaut-adorned name is an homage to the '80s excess that defines their high-velocity approach.
Raw black metal and noise band from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine, formed in 2019, delivering abrasive extremity from the contested peninsula. They bring raw, noise-laden black metal.
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