New York raw black metal project Kaosreich offers nothing in the way of polish or compromise — just corrosive, lo-fi black metal in the most primitive tradition since their 2021 formation. The rawness is the point.

Bellevue, Washington's Kaphogh have been carving out raw black metal terrain in the Seattle suburbs since 2020, bringing a deliberately rough and abrasive aesthetic to a corner of the Pacific Northwest known more for progressive and experimental sounds. Uncompromising and intentionally primitive.

Raw black metal from the small Hudson Valley city of Port Jervis, New York, Karcinosin have been cultivating a corrosive, stripped-down approach to the genre since 2020. Their music carries the cold isolation of rural upstate New York in every crumbling, lo-fi riff.

Los Angeles raw black metal act Kavaldra strip the genre back to its most caustic, unpolished essentials, harnessing deliberate lo-fi abrasion and atmosphere in equal measure since 2020.