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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Danish raw black metal project formed in 2018. They deliver stripped-down, primitive black metal in its rawest form.
Spanish raw black metal band from Rubí near Barcelona, formed in 2019. They channel raw, unfiltered black metal from the Catalan suburbs.
Novocherkassk-based raw black metal project active since 2009, burying its compositions beneath layers of caustic distortion and lo-fi haze. Their uncompromising approach to production channels the most primitive currents of the second wave.
Raw black metal band from London, formed in 2021. Named after a Bloodborne location, they deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal from the English capital.
Raw black metal project originating from Hampshire/Sussex, now based in Manchester, England, active since 2009. Caina craft avant-garde, emotionally intense black metal that pushes the genre's boundaries.
Raw black metal band from Vigo, Spain, emerging in 2026. They channel Celtic and pagan themes through primitive, stripped-down black metal from Galicia.
Raw black metal project from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cer delivers stripped-down, lo-fi black metal from the Dutch heartland.
Raw black-grind act from Tuchów in the Lesser Poland highlands, formed in 2021. Chainsaw Gutsfuck channels lo-fi, primitive extremity from rural southern Poland.
Raw black metal project from Norway. Chalice Ablaze channels primitive, stripped-down black metal in the raw Norwegian tradition.
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