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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Urpest was a Swedish raw black metal project active from 2020 to 2025, leaving behind releases including Bone Orchard, The Outlaw, and Circling Vultures before disbanding. The project's brief but prolific existence produced five releases of underground black metal.
Raw black metal project from Madrid named after Tolkien's orc fortress, delivering lo-fi, abrasive extremity since 2024. Their stripped-down sound embraces the raw aesthetic of underground black metal with fantasy-inspired thematic content.
Vadok is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from Reading, England, formed in 2024. They blend raw black metal with the medieval atmosphere of dungeon synth.
Uzhhorod's Vaginnal Headshot merges raw black metal's lo-fi aggression with metalcore's breakdown-heavy approach from Ukraine's westernmost city on the Slovak border. Their confrontational hybrid channels the Transcarpathian underground's uncompromising spirit.
Vague à Lame is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from France, formed in 2022. They blend the rawness of black metal with dungeon synth's medieval atmosphere.
Valley of Hades is a raw black metal project from Denmark, formed in 2021. The project delivers uncompromising raw black metal steeped in hellish darkness.
Valtharim is a raw black metal project from Germany, formed in 2025. The project pursues the most stripped-down and aggressive end of the black metal spectrum.
Vanvid is a raw black metal duo from Kolding, Denmark, formed in 2017. Their debut "hol" was recorded in a single delirious ten-hour session, delivering four tracks of warped second-wave black metal plus a dark ambient closing spell on limited cassette.
Swedish project Vargthron delivers raw black metal with a deliberately lo-fi aesthetic that embraces tape distortion and minimal production. Their primitive approach strips the genre to its most hostile core, favoring atmosphere and aggression over clarity.
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