Fresh out of Chicago's underground in 2024, Geistwolfe play raw black metal with the immediacy of a project that has something to prove. Minimally produced and aggressive, they are among the city's newest additions to the raw black metal tradition.

A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.

Washington state's GLA operate in the most unfiltered and deliberately lo-fi end of raw black metal, stripping the genre down to static, spite, and atmosphere. A 2022 project for those who want their black metal as abrasive as possible.

Raw, unpolished, and deliberately hostile, Glaive strips black metal back to its most primitive essentials — primitive tremolo lines, blizzard-blast drumming, and vocals dragged up from the frost. A project born in 2020 with no interest in compromise.

Amherst's Gnosis strip black metal down to its most abrasive, unvarnished core — raw production, cold atmosphere, and no concessions to accessibility. Formed in 2018, they belong firmly to the lo-fi, adversarial wing of the underground.

San Jose's Goatcorpse practice raw black metal in the most literal sense — coarse recordings, stripped-down malice, and an utter disdain for production value. Since 2018, they've kept the genre's ugliest instincts fully intact.

Out of Russellville, Alabama, Goatscorge operate at the rawest edges of black/death metal, where production quality is an afterthought and atmosphere is everything. Since 2019, they've served up unfiltered sonic ugliness from deep in the American South.

Pennsylvania's Grabesruhe — a German word for the silence of the grave — crafts raw black metal draped in lo-fi menace and cold isolation. Since 2019 the project has pursued the bleakest end of the underground with uncompromising hostility.

Green Mist operate in the raw, unpolished margins of black metal — thin production, corrosive guitar tones, and a cold atmosphere that seeps in like fog. Active since 2021, this project finds its power in intentional austerity rather than studio polish.

Atlanta's Hackenschmied is a freshly minted raw black metal project, born in 2025 and committed to the genre's most primitive and abrasive aesthetic. Little studio gloss, maximum sonic hostility.

Born out of rural Pennsylvania in 2022, Halo of Flesh deal in raw black metal and noise — corrosive, lo-fi, and deliberately hostile. There is nothing polished about what they do, and that is entirely the point.

Out of Concord, New Hampshire, Halo Pus strip black metal down to its most primitive bones — cold riffs, hissing production, and an atmosphere that feels like winter on a dead road. Raw and uncompromising since 2020.

Operating out of Granbury, Texas since 2004, Hatestorm33 deal in raw, unpolished black metal with forays into dungeon synth — lo-fi and uncompromising in a way that feels deliberately removed from the mainstream.

Athens, Georgia's Heroic Depletion specialize in raw black metal that is deliberately abrasive and deliberately lo-fi since 2019 — the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a state of genuine grievance. Primitive in all the ways that matter.

Atlanta's Hessian favor the unfiltered and abrasive end of black metal, trading atmosphere for confrontation in the raw black tradition. The project dispenses with polish entirely, prioritizing a corroded, static-soaked hostility.