Doom and sludge metal band from Yorkshire, England emerging in 2025. Named after the Old English word for a wild man of the woods, Wudwas channels primal heaviness through crushing doom and sludge.

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.

Stoner and doom metal band from Manchester, England formed in 2019. Wvlf delivers heavy, groove-laden doom and stoner riffs from one of England's most prolific music cities.

Drone and doom metal duo from Liège, Belgium who describe their mission as writing "music for gods." Active since 2015 with releases like Exile to Beyn Neharot and āl bēlūti dārû, their conceptual works draw on ancient Mesopotamian and religious imagery, and they performed live at Roadburn Festival in 2023.

Heavy/doom metal and hard rock band from Skellefteå, Sweden. Wytch brings crushing heavy doom with a hard rock edge from the mining town of northern Västerbotten.

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.

Xanathar is a black/doom metal project from Italy, formed in 2021 with releases including "Thunders over Waterdeep" and "Gold, Black and Crimson." Their fantasy-themed album titles and dark atmospheric compositions fuse the menace of black metal with the crushing weight of doom, channeling imagery drawn from epic and occult sources.

Xanthoma is a doom/death metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2016. They merge the crushing weight of doom metal with the brutality of death metal, creating slow-burning, oppressive compositions rooted in Manchester's long tradition of heavy music.

Xaos Oblivion is a solo black/doom metal and ambient project from Walbrzych in Lower Silesia, Poland, active since 2004. Created by a vocalist also involved in Demonic Slaughter and Blaze Of Perdition, the project blends dark atmospheric metal with ambient soundscapes on releases like the remastered compilation "Rituals Of Ancient Wisdom."