Kansas City raw black metal and punk hybrid born in 2023, stripping the genre down to its most abrasive and primitive elements with the kind of volatile energy that owes as much to hardcore as to black metal.

Hampton Roads, Virginia's Silvanus formed in 2025 at the intersection of folk and black metal, invoking the Roman woodland deity through a sound that marries acoustic folk elements with the raw, pagan ferocity that defines the folk-black genre at its most committed.

An American raw black metal project formed in 2020, Silver Knight operates in the stripped-down, lo-fi tradition that prizes atmosphere and primitive aggression over production polish. Rooted in the most uncompromising corner of the black metal underground, the project treats rawness as an artistic statement.

A California-based one-person project formed in 2021, Sinn Demonisk fuses raw black metal austerity with crust punk's d-beat aggression, producing lo-fi, deliberately abrasive material with no interest in polish or compromise.

Modesto, California's Siom have been working in raw black metal since 2015, producing intentionally lo-fi, caustic material that prioritizes atmosphere and malevolence over any concession to modern production standards.

Skeld is a raw black/death metal project out of Eugene, Oregon, formed in 2021, working in the lo-fi, corrosive tradition where production rawness is a feature rather than a limitation. Their music is primitive and deliberately abrasive, carved out of Oregon's underground with sharp edges left intact.

This elusive raw black metal entity, active since 2021, forgoes location and commercial accessibility in favor of lo-fi abrasion and atmospheric severity — the kind of deliberately obscured project that treats underground anonymity as an aesthetic stance.

A Kentucky-based raw black metal project formed in 2020, Skorbvstr operates in the deliberately abrasive, minimalist tradition of the genre — lo-fi production and stripped-to-the-bone aggression serving as the project's defining aesthetic.

Salt Lake City's Skumlord have been a fixture of the American raw black metal underground since 2007, delivering a deliberately lo-fi, corrosive sound that prioritizes atmosphere and hatred over sonic clarity. Their releases embody the stripped-back, anti-production ethos central to the raw black metal tradition.