Putsch is an American black metal project formed in 2015, deliberately opaque about its location — a common posture in the more esoteric wing of US underground black metal. With a name suggesting violent political upheaval, the band brings a militant, harsh edge to a genre already defined by extremity.

Minnesota's Roosevelt has been operating in the harsh end of raw black metal since 2014, leaning fully into the stripped-down, abrasive aesthetic that defines the style at its most uncompromising. The project carries a distinctly solitary quality, the kind of cold-weather bleakness that feels native to the upper Midwest.

Dallas's Rosary Grave formed in 2023 at the crossroads of raw black metal and dungeon synth, pairing corrosive, low-fidelity black metal with ambient passages that feel genuinely haunted rather than decorative. It's a young project, but one that already sounds like it has a clear and unsettling vision.

Texas act Rougarou, formed in 2024, takes their name from the Cajun werewolf legend and channels it into raw black metal laced with folk elements — an unsettling mix that roots their sound in regional myth and primitive riffing. It's an early but sharp-edged project with a distinctly American folkloric slant.

Michigan's Sacrificial Rite works in the corrosive tradition of raw black metal and noise, producing recordings that feel less like performances than transmissions from somewhere deeply hostile. Formed in 2020, the project also ventures into dungeon synth, creating a tension between freezing lo-fi aggression and solitary, meditative ambience.

California's Sadisme has operated since 2018 in the unforgiving terrain of raw black metal, building a catalog defined by primitive production and an unwillingness to soften any edge. The project strips the genre down to its most confrontational elements — hissing tape noise, venomous riffs, and an atmosphere of pure contempt.

Los Angeles's Satani Infernalis have operated in the raw black metal underground since 2016, a project that deliberately resists the city's association with polished production in favor of primitive, corroded sound design. Their music treats lo-fi aesthetics as an ideological position — raw black metal as it was always meant to be heard, unmediated and contemptuous of commercial refinement.

Phoenix's Satanic Gore Procession emerged in 2024 with the full-commitment intensity that raw black metal demands in the desert heat — a city better known for extreme temperatures than extreme metal, but whose isolation and hostility translates naturally into the genre's rawness. The project's name lays out its terms plainly: this is black metal with no interest in subtlety.

A Texas raw black metal project born in 2025, Satanik and Konfused embrace the deliberately primitive and abrasive end of the spectrum — lo-fi production, caustic riffs, and a contempt for polish that defines the raw black metal underground. Young and uncompromising, they represent the genre's DIY spirit in its most unfiltered form.