Nashville's Cloaked produce raw, primitive black metal with a deep commitment to the genre's most unadorned and hostile traditions. Their recordings are deliberately lo-fi and confrontational, rejecting any polish in favor of pure darkness.

Houston's Cold and Lust traffic in raw black metal with a Texas underground sensibility, blending nihilistic atmosphere with primitive, flesh-stripping aggression that owes nothing to polish.

California's Consumator pursue raw black metal in its most stripped-down and primitive form, trading production sheen for corrosive, lo-fi malice in the tradition of underground USBM's most uncompromising practitioners.

New York raw black metal project stripping the genre down to its most primitive and corrosive essentials, favoring lo-fi hostility over polish. Their sound sits firmly in the underground tradition of American black metal at its most uncompromising.

Ohio raw black metal project steeped in deliberate lo-fi ugliness and a deeply underground aesthetic. Murky, buzzing, and cold, with little interest in accessibility or polish.

Pennsylvania raw black metal project steeped in lo-fi corrosion and stripped-to-bone harshness. Creak operates in the most unmediated register of the genre, where atmosphere is built through decay.

Kentucky raw black metal act operating in the most primitive, lo-fi end of the spectrum. Sparse production and venomous intensity define their deeply underground aesthetic.

Raw black metal act from Phoenix, Arizona operating in the tradition of lo-fi, blasphemic underground black metal with thematic ties to darkness and evil. The band remains fiercely independent and obscure within the Southwest extreme metal underground.

Raw black metal act from Tallahassee, Florida committed to the lo-fi, primitive tradition of the genre's most abrasive underground wing. The band operates well outside Florida's more celebrated death metal legacy, carving out space in the state's smaller black metal underground.