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Featured Album
Death's Forgotten Children (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Necromanteum (2023)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/12 @ The Basement East, Nashville
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
From Days Unto Darkness (2019)
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Spira is a raw black metal project from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2023, embracing the primitive, lo-fi aesthetic of second-wave black metal with a harsh and deliberately unpolished sonic approach.
Stosstruppen is a raw black metal band from Sacramento, California, formed in 2022, practicing an unpolished, lo-fi approach to black metal rooted in the most primitive and corrosive end of the genre.
Sutekh Hexen is an Oakland, California raw black metal and noise act formed in 2010, known for their harrowing blend of lo-fi black metal aggression and experimental noise manipulation, releasing prolifically across tape and vinyl formats.
Wilmington, California's Thulcandra take raw black metal to its most unvarnished extreme, honing a deliberately lo-fi, confrontational approach since 2010 that strips the genre down to its most hostile and primitive elements.
A Citrus Heights, California raw black metal project that surfaced in 2025, Thy Lamentum embraces the stripped-down, buzzing ferocity of the raw black metal underground, building music that prioritizes atmosphere and misery over technical display. Brand new to the scene, they arrive from a Sacramento suburb with the urgency and bleak focus the subgenre demands.
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