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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal band from Chełm, Poland active since 2012. Wilk, meaning "wolf" in Polish, delivers raw black metal from the eastern borderlands of Poland.
Atmospheric black metal project from Odesa, Ukraine emerging in 2025. Will of Reason channels atmospheric black metal from the Black Sea port city.
Black metal band from Chaykovsky, Russia formed in 2021. Willinderh crafts black metal from the small industrial city on the Kama River in the Perm region.
Depressive black metal project from Zoelmond, Netherlands active since 2011. Willoos channels the flat, grey Dutch landscape into introspective depressive black metal.
Black metal band from Valladolid, Spain active since 2001. Willpower channels over two decades of dedication to black metal from the Castilian meseta of central Spain.
Ambient black metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Wind Cathedral blends the ethereal beauty of ambient music with black metal's raw intensity.
One of the older acts in the American underground, Jackson, Michigan's Wind of the Black Mountains have been producing raw, orthodox black metal since 1996 — nearly thirty years of fidelity to a sound that most fair-weather fans abandoned long ago. They represent the true American black metal underground: isolated, uncompromising, and indifferent to trends.
Elizabeth, New Jersey's Windfaerer have been weaving black metal ferocity together with folk instrumentation and melody since 2009, creating an atmospheric hybrid rooted equally in pagan tradition and modern extreme metal. Their New Jersey origins are easy to forget when the music is this sweeping — Windfaerer conjure landscapes far removed from the Garden State's industrial corridor.
Melodic black, folk, and Viking metal band from Sogndal, Norway founded in 1994 by the late Valfar (Terje Bakken). Windir blended Sogndal's dramatic fjord landscapes with black metal, folk melodies, and Viking themes, creating a beloved legacy that endures despite Valfar's tragic death in 2004.
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