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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Melodic death metal band from Hamburg, Germany formed in 2015. Withered Moon blends Scandinavian-inspired melodic death metal with atmospheric depth, bringing the Gothenburg tradition to the Hanseatic city.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Äänekoski, Finland emerging in 2025. Withered Petunia brings a fresh take on melodic aggression from the small central Finnish town.
Progressive rock and melodic death metal project from Sweden. Witherscape blends the intricate arrangements of progressive rock with the aggressive melodicism of Swedish death metal.
Melodic death metal band from Madrid, Spain formed in 2023. Withersoil brings fresh melodic death metal to the Spanish capital, blending harmonic guitar work with aggressive extremity.
Death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece formed in 2021. Without Faith brings visceral death metal to the northern Greek underground with punishing riffs and guttural vocals.
Melodic death metal band from Falun, Sweden emerging in 2025. Without Grief brings fresh melodic death metal from the historic Dalarna mining town.
Death metal band from Birmingham, England formed in 2020. Without Past channels the industrial spirit of the West Midlands into visceral death metal.
Without Solace is a Black/Death Metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, formed in 2026. The band explores themes of death, war, Satanism, and anti-Christianity, and released their debut EP, Apoteosis Adversaria, along with several singles in their formation year.
Formed in 2020 in Chico, California, Witness My Death fuses melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the rawer brutality of straight death metal. Their approach leans into melody as a vehicle for grief and aggression rather than a softening agent, striking a balance that feels earned rather than commercial. Still in their early years, they represent a younger generation of West Coast death metal pushing the genre forward.
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