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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Black metal project from Baden-Württemberg, Germany active since 2011. Wolfsrune draws from the forests and folklore of southwestern Germany to craft atmospheric black metal with a pagan edge.
Black metal project from Thuringia, Germany. Wolfsschrei, meaning "wolf's cry," delivers raw black metal from the forested heartland of central Germany.
Black metal project from Pfinztal, Germany formed in 2016. Wolfsthron forges cold, uncompromising black metal from the northern edge of the Black Forest region.
Black metal project formed in 2020 in Innsbruck, Austria. Wolfsthurn channels the cold Alpine atmosphere of the Tyrolean capital into raw black metal.
Black metal project from Barcelona, Spain active since 2016. Wolfstonecraft delivers raw black metal from the Catalonian capital with an artistic edge suggested by their literary-tinged name.
Black, thrash, and speed metal band from Libourne, France formed in 2020. Wolfstorm unleashes a ferocious triple-genre assault of black metal darkness, thrash aggression, and speed metal velocity from the Bordeaux wine region.
Post-black metal project from Anglesey, Wales formed in 2022. Wolkn channels the wild, windswept atmosphere of the Welsh island into expansive post-black metal.
Black metal project from Gdańsk, Poland emerging in 2025. Wolven Vault channels the dark spirit of the Baltic coast through raw black metal.
Black metal project from the Netherlands formed in 2018. Wolvenbloed, meaning "wolf's blood" in Dutch, channels raw primal energy through atmospheric black metal.
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