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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Melodic black/death metal project from Baden-Württemberg, Germany emerging in 2024. Wrakjon fuses the melodic sensibility of both black and death metal traditions into a potent hybrid from southwestern Germany.
Black metal band from Utrecht, Netherlands active since 2015. Wrang delivers raw, atmospheric black metal from the historic cathedral city of the Dutch heartland.
Black and death metal band from Nantes, France active since 2017. Wrath from Above delivers a furious dual assault of black and death metal from the Atlantic coast of western France.
Black and death metal band from Oulu, Finland active since 2004, evolving from pure black metal into a black/death hybrid. Wrathage has spent two decades channeling the extreme cold of northern Finland into aggressive, genre-blending extreme metal.
Raw black metal project from Osnabrück, Germany emerging in 2024. Wreedheid, a Dutch-German word for cruelty, delivers unfiltered raw black metal with a stripped-down, hostile approach.
Black metal band from Warrington, England formed in 2022. Wretched Malediction channels darkness and misanthropy through raw black metal from the Cheshire town.
Black metal project from Harrogate, England active since 2006. Written in Torment has spent nearly two decades crafting black metal from the Yorkshire spa town, channeling anguish through atmospheric extremity.
Black/speed metal band from Brașov, Romania emerging in 2024. Wräthhammer merges black metal darkness with speed metal's velocity from the medieval Transylvanian city at the foot of the Carpathians.
Pagan/black metal band from Sundsvall, Sweden formed in 2019. Wulafir channels Norse pagan themes through atmospheric black metal from the Norrland coast.
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