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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Melodic heavy metal and hard rock band from Fürth, Germany formed in 2016. Wishing Well channels the accessible melodicism of classic hard rock through a heavy metal lens from the Franconian heartland.
Power and thrash metal band from Turin, Italy formed in 2016. Wishmaster blends power metal's soaring melodies with thrash's aggressive edge from the Piedmontese capital.
Symphonic power metal band from Úpice and Jaroměř in the Czech Republic formed in 2016. Wishmasters channels the orchestral grandeur and soaring melodies of symphonic power metal in the tradition of European masters of the genre.
Heavy metal band from Bergerac, France formed in 2019. Wishy Washy delivers riff-driven heavy metal from the Dordogne wine region of southwestern France.
Black/death metal band from Świebodzice, Poland formed in 2021. Wisielec, meaning "hanged man," channels morbid darkness through a vicious black/death metal hybrid from Lower Silesia.
Gothic and industrial metal band from Perugia, Italy active since 2017. Wisteria weaves dark gothic atmospheres with industrial textures from the medieval Umbrian hilltop city.
Heavy metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark emerging in 2026. Witch Cross brings freshly forged traditional heavy metal to the Danish capital's vibrant underground scene.
Black metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Witch Cunt delivers raw, confrontational black metal with a provocative edge.
Heavy metal band from Pori, Finland formed in 2018. Witch Hunt forges traditional heavy metal from the western Finnish coast with an occult edge and powerful riffing.
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