Death metal band from Orsa, Sweden active since 2018. Wretched Fate delivers old-school Swedish death metal from the small Dalarna village in the heart of Scandinavia.

Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 2020. Wrymind blends Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore from Russia's northern capital.

Melodic death/doom metal band from Clermont-Ferrand, France emerging in 2025. Wurmian channels the volcanic landscape of the Auvergne into melancholic, crushing melodic death/doom.

Death metal band from Plymouth, England active since 2012. Wytchburner delivers punishing death metal from the Devon coast with an occult edge.

Death metal and crust band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany active since 2017. Wør fuses the heaviness of death metal with crust punk's raw fury from the edge of the Black Forest.

X, Y, Z is a progressive death/thrash metal project from Rosice, Czech Republic, formed in the late 1990s from the ashes of defunct band Monastery. Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Igor Mores, who has played in bands like Hypnos and Forgotten Silence, the project blends drone, jazz, and extreme metal into experimental compositions across releases like "UnCommon Space" and "The Right Way of..."

X-ULL is a death/doom metal trio from Lodi, Italy, consisting of Samuele, Paolo, and Francesco. Their 2025 EP "Last Hope X-3" weaves apocalyptic narratives inspired by Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" across five crushing tracks of slow, atmospheric death doom.

X.Kernel is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2013 and heavily influenced by the Gothenburg MDM scene. Their 2017 debut album "Face the Truth" on Cimmerian Shade Recordings was praised for its techy, grooving melodic death metal that explores themes at the intersection of physical and virtual realities.

X.T.O. is a death metal band from Kongsvinger, Norway, formed in 2007. Hailing from the country that gave birth to some of extreme metal's most notorious acts, they deliver unrelenting death metal with a distinctly Norwegian edge.