A raw black metal project from Westchester County channeling the lo-fi, abrasive aesthetic of the USBM underground with primitive production and bleak atmosphere.

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.

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.

New York raw black metal project Kaosreich offers nothing in the way of polish or compromise — just corrosive, lo-fi black metal in the most primitive tradition since their 2021 formation. The rawness is the point.

Raw black metal from the small Hudson Valley city of Port Jervis, New York, Karcinosin have been cultivating a corrosive, stripped-down approach to the genre since 2020. Their music carries the cold isolation of rural upstate New York in every crumbling, lo-fi riff.

Somme are a Rochester, New York death metal band formed in 2020, their name invoking the catastrophic World War I battle as a thematic lens for brutal and unrelenting extreme metal.

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.

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.