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Black metal project from Bavaria, Germany formed in 2020. Winterreich forges cold, harsh black metal from the alpine landscapes of southern Germany.
Black metal band from England formed in 2020. Winters Mourning crafts cold, sorrowful black metal steeped in the bleakness of English winter.
Black metal band from Bilbao, Spain formed in 2020. Wintershadow channels the cold spirit of black metal through the industrial atmosphere of the Basque Country's largest city.
Maple Grove, Minnesota's Winterthermia formed in 2025, taking depressive black metal's most inward-looking, anguished qualities and placing them in one of the coldest, most winter-defined states in the country — a setting that doesn't require any artistic license to justify the genre's obsessions. Their name fuses the season with suffering, and in Minnesota's brutal winters, that metaphor requires no translation.
Symphonic black and folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2015. Winterthroned weaves orchestral arrangements and folk melodies into a black metal foundation, creating an epic Nordic soundscape.
Two-piece black metal band from Austria blending black metal with punk and crust influences into short, aggressive bursts. Their 2024 recording próba 01.11.2024 sets World War II-era Polish poetry to a raw hybrid of sludge and black metal, creating an unusual fusion of literary tradition and extreme music.
Melodic death/black metal band from Krasnoyarsk, Russia active since 2011. WirgHata channels the Siberian capital's extreme climate into aggressive melodic extreme metal.
Experimental and atmospheric black metal project from Berlin active since 2014, incorporating microtonal elements, ambient textures, and environmental themes into extended compositions. Their 2015 album Gros Morne features four tracks spanning fifty-two minutes, tagged as green metal and vegan black metal alongside anarchist philosophy.
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.
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