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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Widunder, meaning "prodigy" in Old Swedish, channels archaic Nordic darkness through black metal.
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.
St. Louis's Wieldsayer have been practicing a cold, methodical strain of black metal since 2018 — the kind of music that carries the genre's Norwegian roots while planting them firmly in the Midwest's bleak winters. There's a no-frills intensity to their approach that fits the working-class grit of their city.
Black metal band from Fano, Italy formed in 2019. Wij delivers raw black metal from the Adriatic coast of the Marche region.
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.
Black metal band from Malbork, Poland active since 2015. Wilcy, meaning "wolves," channels raw black metal from the city dominated by the Teutonic Knights' castle.
Philadelphia's Wild Beyond formed in 2023 at the caustic junction of black metal and thrash — burning fast and mean in the tradition of blackthrash's most venomous practitioners. Philly has long fostered a taste for extreme music, and Wild Beyond carry that energy forward with a sound built on speed, spite, and riffs that cut.
Atmospheric black metal project from Nieuwegein/Utrecht, Netherlands active since 2010. Wilds Forlorn channels expansive atmospheric black metal from the Dutch heartland with a focus on nature and desolation.
Environmentalist blackened crust. Doom, d-beat, and black metal fused with lyrics about nature's resilience and civilization's collapse. Released on Prosthetic Records.
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