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.

Industrial/black metal band from Gdańsk, Poland active since 2011. Widetk fuses the mechanical coldness of industrial music with black metal's extremity from the Baltic port city.

Stoner rock and metal band from Nottingham, England active since 2006. Widows has spent nearly two decades delivering heavy, groove-laden stoner riffs from the East Midlands.

Black metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Widunder, meaning "prodigy" in Old Swedish, channels archaic Nordic darkness through black metal.

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.

Stoner and doom metal band from Toruń, Poland active since 2013. Wieczny Powrót, meaning "eternal return," crafts heavy stoner doom from the medieval Vistula city.

Formed in Ghent, Belgium in 2014, Wiegedood — a Dutch term for sudden infant death syndrome — emerged as a side project of members of Amenra and Oathbreaker, including vocalist and guitarist Levy Seynaeve. Their debut De Doden Hebben Het Goed (2015) launched a trilogy of the same name, completed in 2017 and 2018, delivering atmospheric black metal of stark brutality and cascading intensity. Their fourth album There's Always Blood at the End of the Road (2022) shifted thematic focus toward the ugliness of human nature, expanding beyond conventional black metal frameworks.

Death metal project from Russia formed in 2022. Wierddream delivers death metal through a surreal, dreamlike lens that pushes the genre into strange territory.

Thrash metal band from Dülmen/Coesfeld, Germany formed in 2022. Wifebeater brings raw, confrontational thrash to the Westphalian underground with an unfiltered approach to the genre.