Westchester, New York's Torch and Sword emerged in 2020 as a raw black metal project that strips the genre back to its most primitive and confrontational form — crude production, relentless aggression, and an ethos that rejects the polished aesthetics of modern extreme metal. New York's dense underground has always had room for this kind of uncompromising work.

An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.

Trollkicker is a raw black metal project from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formed in 2013, operating in the lo-fi, abrasive end of the genre with an emphasis on primitive intensity over production polish.

Twilight Falls is a raw black metal and ambient project active since 2005, rooted in the Pacific Northwest and dedicated to lo-fi, primitive black metal recordings layered with cold atmospheric textures.

Tyrannus is an Albany, New York raw black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2019, inhabiting the lo-fi, primitive end of the black metal spectrum while incorporating the atmospheric, keyboard-driven textures of dungeon synth.

Tyrant Veil is a raw black metal project from Minneapolis, Minnesota, active since 2013, pursuing a deliberately lo-fi and abrasive approach to the genre stripped of any atmospheric polish.

Raw black metal out of Anchorage, Alaska, Uru work in the most stripped-down and corrosive end of the genre since 2016, with the isolation of the Last Frontier providing an appropriate setting for their hostile, lo-fi aesthetic. Geography as atmosphere — the darkness here feels genuinely remote.

Born from the high desert of Santa Fe in 2019, Valac conjures raw black metal built on lo-fi corrosion and primitive hostility. Their recordings embrace ugliness as a weapon, stripping the genre back to its most abrasive and uncompromising essence.

Verminizer appeared in 2023 as a stateless, anonymous entity fusing raw black metal with industrial noise and thrash metal brutality. The combination produces something genuinely machine-like in its hostility — mechanical, scabrous, and resistant to easy categorization.