Viking and death metal band from Romainville, France active since 2005. Named after the Anglo-Saxon form of Odin, Woden merges Viking-era themes with death metal aggression from the Parisian suburbs.

Funeral doom band from Aarhus, Denmark delivering dark, slow-paced extremity across a deep catalog including The Forestroamer, Marrow of Dreams, and Deathstination. Their oppressive funeral doom crawls through extended compositions of grief-stricken heaviness.

Black metal turned melodic death/thrash metal project from Ivrea, Italy emerging in 2025. WoidForge has evolved from black metal origins into a melodic death/thrash hybrid from the historic carnival city of Piedmont.

Industrial black/death metal project from Germany formed in 2014. Woith merges the mechanical harshness of industrial music with the extremity of black and death metal into a cold, mechanized assault.

Grindcore band from Rostock, Germany active since 1995, devoted to "no bullshit grindcore and blast beat worship" for nearly three decades. Their sound combines old-school grind riffage, frantic thrash, and filthy beatdowns, with recent releases mastered by James Plotkin.

Sludge and death metal band from Portsmouth, England formed in 2020. Wolf Plays Dead fuses the crushing weight of sludge with death metal's brutality from the south coast naval city.

Originally formed as Wolfpack in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995, the band renamed themselves Wolfbrigade in 2000 to distance themselves from a neo-Nazi prison gang that shared the name. Founded by veterans of the Swedish death metal scene, they merged d-beat rhythms, crust punk urgency, and melodic death metal heaviness into a volatile and influential hybrid. Releases including Prey to the World (2007), Damned (2012), and Run with the Hunted (2017) on Metal Blade Records established them as one of the most durable and respected acts at the intersection of crust and death metal.

Melodic death metal band from Manchester, England active since 2011. Wolfcrusher blends the melodic traditions of Scandinavian death metal with the energy of the Manchester underground.

Pagan black/death metal band from Moscow, Russia active since 2018. Wolfkrieg channels Slavic pagan themes through a ferocious black and death metal hybrid.