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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Death metal band from Ablis, France active since 2014. Whisper of Death delivers punishing death metal from the small town in the Île-de-France countryside.
Atmospheric gothic death-doom band from Tallinn, Estonia established in 1995. After years of crafting atmospheric doom that blended gothic melancholy with death metal weight, the band played their final performance at the Hard Rock Laager festival in 2006.
Melodic folk and death metal band from Tarragona, Spain with roots stretching back decades. White Raven fuses folk melodies with death metal aggression, drawing from Catalonia's rich cultural heritage.
Melodic death metal band from Budapest, Hungary active since 2015. Whitebacon delivers Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal from the banks of the Danube.
Death and thrash metal band from Catalonia, Spain formed in 2017. Whitedeath combines death metal's guttural fury with thrash's speed from the northeast of Spain.
Founded in 2009 to break from the Texas brutal death mold with a more sinister, blackened approach. Three albums deep, with 'Ritual of Homicide' dropping in 2023.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Valencia, Spain active since 2017. Whoredom unleashes a triple-pronged attack of extreme subgenres, merging the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death and speed of thrash.
Experimental death metal and grindcore project from Paris with electronic influences, formed in 2022. Whourkr pushes extreme metal into electronic territory through an avant-garde fusion that defies conventional genre boundaries.
Seattle's Whythre has been honing a melodic death metal approach since 2016, blending the precision and melody of the Gothenburg school with the darker, more abrasive edge that runs through the Pacific Northwest's metal scene. Their sound balances aching melodic leads against heavier, grinding death metal foundations — brooding in the way only a Seattle band can pull off with conviction.
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