raw black metal

Listen: Winterburial Release Debut Album, “White Tomb Pilgrimage”

January 10, 2022

Stream White Tomb Pilgrimage, the debut album from anonymous black metal outfit Winterburial.

Full EP Stream: Bat Magic – “Feast Of Blood”

July 28, 2021

Bat Magic, the first entity from the Ordo Vampyr Orientis black metal circle has emerged with its debut release for all raw devotees.

Album Premiere: Ritual Suicide – Nocturnal Haematolagnia

October 7, 2020

Now-dead Ukranian black metal cult Ritual Suicide leave us a terrifying departing gift. Hear Nocturnal Haematolagnia, the band’s final album, in its entirety now.

Track Premiere: Void Prayer – “L’Appel du Vide”

September 2, 2020

Eastern European raw black metallers Void Prayer unveil a sneak peek into the abyss that is their forthcoming sophomore full-length, The Grandiose Return to the Void.

Nocturnal Departure: Offerings to the Raw Black Metal Moon

July 3, 2020

The latest release from Nocturnal Departure is a raw, unpolished, but thoroughly brutal and melancholic blast of fire and darkness.

Track Premiere: Black Cilice – ‘Maze of Spirits’

August 6, 2019

Stream a track from the forthcoming new album by mysterious Portuguese black metal act Black Cilice.

Full Album Stream + Interview: Kommodus – “An Imperial Sun Rises”

July 17, 2019

This is the fourth interview we featured with black metallers Kommodus since their Demo:listen debut in 2017.

Svadilfare Releases “Fortapte Roetter,” a Treasury of Raw and Melodic Black Metal

July 12, 2019

Norway’s Svadilfare has the Norwegian black metal sound nailed: raw yet melodic, powerful but not overdone, epic but NOT cheesy.

Track Premiere: Wald Krypta – ‘Our Prevalence’

November 1, 2018

Wald Krypta stand against the modern state of black metal, a belief system heard clearly in their lo-fi, raw songs.

Full Album Stream: Pandiscordian Necrogenesis – “Outer Supernal”

October 25, 2018

Stream the abrasive new album from improvisational black metal entity Pandiscordian Necrogenesis.

Of Bile and Fortified Ruins: Akitsa Releases Credo

October 19, 2018

Akitsa issues another salvo of blood, bile and darkness on “Credo,” out now via Profound Lore. Essential listening for all fans of raw black metal.

Full EP Stream: Nott – “Vestigium Mortis”

September 10, 2018

Hear the new EP from prolific Italian black metal entity Nott.

Mining for Black Metal Gold: 6 Great Underground Bands

May 25, 2018

There’s a lot of great underground black metal bands out there among the leather-wearing and corpse-painted multitude. This article features music by Riivaus, Nyctophilia, Atra Vetosus, Antimateria, Ühtceare and Nox.

Legions ov Darkness: The Cumbrian Black Metal Scene

May 11, 2018

A profile of a group of musical entities from northwestern England, specializing in pure, raw black metal, all under the name Legions ov Darkness.

Demo:listen: Dogman

July 21, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen we howl through the night with Sarejevo’s Dogman.