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Days of Ruin (2020)
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Meditations I (2026)
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Philadelphia's Lake of Bile emerged in 2025 with raw black metal corroded by noise, trading atmosphere for corrosion and melody for abrasion. They represent the most caustic end of Philly's burgeoning underground black metal scene.
Speed metal delivered at maximum velocity with a thrash backbone, Los Angeles' Last Rites have been tearing up the West Coast scene since 2002.
Named for the terrifying owl-witch of Mexican folklore, Lechuza channel that mythological dread into raw black metal that is deliberately abrasive and relentlessly malevolent.
A New Hampshire one-person raw black metal project, Lochwood Tower emerged in 2023 with a lo-fi, frost-bitten aesthetic rooted in solitude and primitive fury.
Arizona raw black metal act Lucifixion have been operating in deliberate obscurity since 1996, devoted to primitive, unpolished black metal that refuses any concession to comfort.
Rising out of Missoula in 2023, Lust Hag deal in raw black metal that sounds like it was recorded inside a Montana winter — primitive, corrosive, and unfiltered. A solo project that refuses to polish away the ugliness.
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