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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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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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Death and thrash metal band from Catalonia, Spain formed in 2017. Whitedeath combines death metal's guttural fury with thrash's speed from the northeast of Spain.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Valencia, Spain active since 2017. Whoredom unleashes a triple-pronged attack of extreme subgenres, merging the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death and speed of thrash.
Experimental death metal and grindcore project from Paris with electronic influences, formed in 2022. Whourkr pushes extreme metal into electronic territory through an avant-garde fusion that defies conventional genre boundaries.
Deathcore band from Chomutov, Czech Republic active since 2005, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Czech deathcore scene. Wictims delivers punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals rooted in the genre's most aggressive traditions.
Death/thrash metal band from Łódź, Poland formed in 2023. Wieczny Mróz, meaning "eternal frost," delivers aggressive death/thrash from Poland's third-largest city.
Death metal project from Russia formed in 2022. Wierddream delivers death metal through a surreal, dreamlike lens that pushes the genre into strange territory.
Black, death, and gothic metal project from Spain active since 1994, incorporating ambient and folk elements into their diverse sound. Wiking Wings spans nearly three decades of genre-blending extreme metal that draws from both atmospheric and aggressive traditions.
Progressive death metal band from Rapallo, Italy active since 2015. Will 'o' Wisp pushes death metal into intricate progressive territory from the Ligurian Riviera.
Progressive death metal and progressive rock solo project from Manchester, England active since 2014. Will Mitchell blends the technical complexity of progressive death metal with the melodic sensibility of progressive rock.
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