Ferocious Speed / Thrash Metal from Houston.

Los Angeles-based Me Igi traffics in raw black metal stripped down to its most abrasive essentials, formed in 2021 against the grain of the city's sunlit reputation. Their material is lo-fi and confrontational, drawing from the primitive necro tradition while filtering it through a Southern California isolation.

Out of Virginia Beach, Monolittisk have been practicing raw, primitive black metal since 2015 — the name (Norwegian for 'monolithic') signals the project's intent: unpolished, cold, and deliberately minimal.

Moonlantern is a San Diego raw black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2018, occupying the atmospheric, lo-fi end of the underground where raw black metal and ambient synth work share the same physical and spiritual space. The dungeon synth dimension sets them apart from pure raw black metal acts, suggesting a project as interested in solitary introspection as in harsh noise.

Moonlight Romantica is a Connecticut raw black metal project formed in 2024 that weaves gothic influence through its harsh lo-fi framework, creating music that is ugly and beautiful in roughly equal measure. The gothic element gives their sound a melodic, romanticist pull that works in tension with the rawness of the production.

Moonlit Fortress is a raw black metal project from Fredericksburg, Virginia, formed in 2025. Among the newest acts in the underground, they occupy a tradition that prizes austerity, noise, and rejection of polish — music that sounds like it was recorded in a basement because it was.

Standing Rock, New Mexico raw black metal project born in 2020, channeling the lo-fi fury and isolation of the rawer black metal underground from an unusual and geographically remote vantage point. Their location in Standing Rock adds a stark, desert-bound bleakness to the genre's already nihilistic core.

Ypsilanti, Michigan's Mordake deal in raw black metal stripped to its most primitive and abrasive essentials, operating since 2015 within the American underground's lo-fi black metal tradition. Their sound prioritizes atmosphere through harshness rather than polish, keeping the music deliberately ugly and confrontational.

Portland raw black metal project Morosity strips the genre down to its most hostile and primitive elements, embracing lo-fi production and venomous aggression since forming in 2011. They represent the DIY, under-the-radar ethos that has long defined Portland's underground metal community.