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Viribus Unitis (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Raw black metal project from Belgium, steadily building a body of work across four numbered demos since their formation in 2019. Each release strips the genre down to its most primal elements, favoring unpolished aggression over studio refinement.
Raw lo-fi black metal outfit from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2023. Featuring Lord Blackout and Count Necro on vocals, Frost Commander on guitar, and The Machine on drums, they channel the rawest traditions of the second wave into stripped-down, forest-themed black metal.
An established raw black metal voice from Tornio, contributing to Finland's underground since 2025. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Hedonism is a raw black metal project from Paris, France, active since 2026 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Raw black metal/noise project from Osnabruck, Germany, active since 2015. Their harsh, lo-fi sound pushes black metal into abrasive noise territory with unrelenting sonic punishment.
Raw black metal and ambient project from Prague, Czech Republic, active since 2012. Their atmospheric approach merges the aggression of raw black metal with ambient soundscapes, creating haunting sonic landscapes.
Raw black metal and dungeon synth project from Skanderborg, Denmark, formed in 2020. Their dual approach combines the lo-fi aggression of raw black metal with the medieval atmospheres of dungeon synth.
Raw black metal project from Pastavy, Belarus. Their stripped-down, lo-fi approach embraces the most primitive and unpolished currents of black metal from the Belarusian hinterlands.
Hell Wehrwolf is a raw black metal project from Vilyuchinsk, Russia, active since 2021 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
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