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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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Grindcore and death metal band from Cagliari, Sardinia active since 2011. We Are Building Ruins delivers explosive extreme metal from the Mediterranean island with over a decade of grindcore fury.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire, England active since 2014. We Are Tyrants blends Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with modern metalcore energy from the East Midlands.
Brutal death metal band from Omsk, Russia active since 2011. Weakness delivers punishing brutality from the West Siberian city on the Irtysh River.
Progressive death and groove metal band from Dorset, England formed in 2020. Named after the Tolkien landmark, Weathertop blends progressive complexity with death and groove metal's heavy foundation.
Death, doom, and sludge metal band from Gliwice, Poland emerging in 2025. Weedvoid merges the heaviest extreme metal subgenres into a crushing triple-genre assault from the Upper Silesian industrial basin.
Death and groove metal band from Wondelgem, Belgium formed in 2018. Welkin fuses the heaviness of death metal with the rhythmic punch of groove metal, creating a hard-hitting Belgian take on extreme metal.
Black/death metal and deathcore band from Mannheim, Germany active since 2006. Weltenbrand merges the blast-beat intensity of black and death metal with deathcore's crushing breakdowns from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Death metal band from Oberhausen, Germany formed in 2016. Went Blank delivers direct, heavy death metal from the industrial Ruhr region of western Germany.
Melodic death and groove metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2020. Weren fuses the melodic power of Finnish death metal with groove metal's rhythmic punch from the industrial city of southern Finland.
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