Fresh out of Chicago's underground in 2024, Geistwolfe play raw black metal with the immediacy of a project that has something to prove. Minimally produced and aggressive, they are among the city's newest additions to the raw black metal tradition.

A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.

Los Angeles's Genital Shame approach experimental black metal from an oblique angle, founded in 2022 with a sound that courts discomfort as much as aggression. Provocative in name and in practice.

Louisville, Kentucky's Gennembore arrived in 2023 carrying the weight of their city's sludge and doom heritage into raw black metal terrain. New, but already steeped in the kind of darkness Louisville does particularly well.

A raw black metal outfit from Toledo, Ohio, Genocidal Rites emerged in 2023 with a ferocious and uncompromising approach rooted in the grimmer traditions of the genre. Their name and ethos leave little ambiguity — this is black metal with no interest in refinement.

Lansing, Michigan's Genocya has been weaving black and death metal together since 2011, crafting a sound that swings between icy tremolo passages and down-tuned, guttural extremity. They occupy that punishing middle ground where both genres drag each other deeper into the dark.

Hailing from Fulton, Missouri, Gerasene arrived in 2024 with a blackened melodic death metal sound that balances icy ferocity with sweeping, melodic grandeur. The name references the biblical demonic — an apt metaphor for music this possessed.

North Carolina's Germanic Iron traffics in the harsh, martial intersection of black and death metal, producing music that sounds like a siege engine wrapped in frost. They've been waging sonic warfare since 2016.

Jacksonville, Florida's Gerovit takes its name from a Slavic war deity and delivers a thrash-forward black metal attack to match — fast, aggressive, and steeped in ancient menace. Formed in 2023, they're already hitting with conviction.

A New Jersey black metal project with a distinctly archaic name, Gersey Deoful operates in the raw, atmospheric end of the spectrum where isolation and atmosphere count as much as speed. Active since 2021, they favor atmosphere built on murk and malice.

St. Louis black metal act Gestalt deals in cold, unornamented darkness — stripped-down riffs and a bleak, suffocating atmosphere that owes more to second-wave austerity than modern production values. They've been haunting the Missouri underground since 2018.

From Richland, Washington, Gevurah weaves symphonic grandeur into black metal's ferocity, producing music that feels simultaneously vast and vicious. Since 2011, they've drawn on Kabbalistic imagery for a sound that aspires to something genuinely cosmic.

Cleveland, Ohio's Ghast Misanthropia surfaced in 2023 with black metal that leans into the ugly and misanthropic, carrying the weight of the Rust Belt in its cold riffs and hostile atmosphere. The name is a mission statement.

One of the more weathered acts in this collection, Ghastly Secret has been operating out of Minocqua, Wisconsin since 1996, working a heavy/black/death metal hybrid that carries decades of underground conviction. Longevity in a small Wisconsin town says everything about their dedication.

Taking its name from one of H.P. Lovecraft's most obscure deities, New York's Ghatanothoa blends dungeon synth and dark ambient with black metal, conjuring something genuinely arcane. Formed in 2021, they sit at the spectral edge of the black metal underground.