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.

Satanic Count is a black metal band from Quito, Ecuador, founded in 2019. They have maintained an active output since their formation, releasing the full-lengths Worship Evil Arts (2019) and UtterHell Scorn (2020), contributing to multiple split releases, and issuing the double-disc full-length S.S in 2025.

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.

Illinois's Satanic Vomit arrived in 2025 with black metal built for maximum impact and zero compromise, a new project from the American Midwest that treats the genre's most confrontational aesthetics as both form and content. Their name signals everything you need to know about where they stand on the question of accessibility.

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.

Ultra-limited war metal cult. Releases pressed in runs of 5 to 300 copies, available only directly from the band.

SatchVai Band gives Joe Satriani and Steve Vai a shared setting for a friendship and guitar language that began long before their modern tours together. The project is more than two virtuosos trading solos; it plays on the contrast between Satriani's melodic precision and Vai's elastic, theatrical phrasing. Their single "I Wanna Play My Guitar," featuring Glenn Hughes, frames that exchange inside a direct hard-rock anthem, with the guitar work serving the song before opening into fireworks. Onstage, the band format lets their catalogs, new material, and classic-rock jams breathe through a rhythm section rather than feeling like isolated showcases. Satriani tends to bring compact themes and singing lines, while Vai twists harmony, articulation, and pitch into stranger shapes, so their interplay becomes conversational rather than competitive. The appeal is rooted in shared history: teacher and student, peers, G3 collaborators, and lifelong explorers of high-gain instrumental rock. SatchVai Band works because it treats technical mastery as chemistry, not just athletic display.

Filthy Progressive Black Metal out of Texas.

Formed in 2020 in Spring Valley, California, Sator Square take their name from the ancient Latin palindrome carved into stone across the Roman world — a fitting emblem for a band weaving gothic atmosphere together with power metal grandeur. Their sound balances soaring melody and dramatic weight, with the gothic darkness of acts like Type O Negative cutting against the propulsive uplift of European power metal.