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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Melodic death metal band from Bucharest, Romania active since 2008. Warganism channels Scandinavian-style melodic death metal from the Romanian capital.
Epic death/black metal band from Paris, France formed in 2022. Wargasm channels the grandeur of epic extreme metal through a death and black metal fusion from the French capital.
Black/death metal band from Weimar, Germany formed in 2022. Wargeist merges the tremolo-driven intensity of black metal with death metal's guttural heaviness from the cultural heart of Thuringia.
Death/doom and black metal project from Germany formed in 2019. Wargiþa channels archaic darkness through a hybrid of crushing doom passages and black metal ferocity, with releases including Fleshgate and Stille.
Black/death metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2012. Wargrinder merges black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing heaviness from the Athenian underground.
Brutal death metal band from Caen/Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France active since 2017. Wargus delivers unrelenting brutality from Normandy with guttural vocals and crushing riffs.
Doom, death, and thrash metal band from Castrop-Rauxel, Germany signed to Ván Records, evolving from heavy Hellhammer influences into their own distinctive sound. Their 2025 album Total Maniac was recorded in the presence of late member Volker, who passed away two weeks after the final recordings, and was released on the fourth anniversary of his death.
Death/black metal band from Pistoia, Italy formed in 2020. Warhatred channels fury through a vicious blend of death and black metal from the Tuscan hills.
Saint Paul's Warhead emerged in 2023 at the intersection of thrash, death metal, and crossover — a convergence zone where the pit never stops moving. They bring the raw directness of crossover's hardcore DNA to material that has genuine death metal menace buried inside it, and the result plays like a provocation aimed at anyone standing still. The Twin Cities underground has always had teeth, and Warhead are happy to use theirs.
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