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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 death and power metal band from Barcelona, Spain active since 2012. Worth combines the harmonic richness of power metal with melodic death metal's aggressive edge from the Catalonian capital.
Death metal band from Mainz, Germany emerging in 2024. Wotolom brings fresh brutality to the Rhine-Main region with a visceral approach to death metal.
Technical death metal band from Leipzig, Germany formed in 2016. Wound Spreader delivers intricate, precision-driven death metal built on complex rhythms and technical virtuosity from the Saxon underground.
Melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland emerging in 2025. Wounded in Forest brings fresh melodic death metal from the subarctic forests of northern Finland.
Progressive death metal band from London, England active since 2017. Wounded Not Dead pushes death metal into progressive territory with ambitious arrangements and technical complexity.
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 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.
Deathcore band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England active since 2014. Wrath of Akhlys delivers punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals from the northeast of England.
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.
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