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Tampa has long been hallowed ground for death metal, and Wirethrone carries that lineage forward with a melodic edge sharpened since their 2013 formation. Their approach grafts Scandinavian melodic death sensibilities onto Florida's traditionally brutal framework, yielding something simultaneously hook-driven and punishing. They've carved out a distinct identity in a city where death metal comparisons come hard and fast.
Melodic death/black metal band from Krasnoyarsk, Russia active since 2011. WirgHata channels the Siberian capital's extreme climate into aggressive melodic extreme metal.
Doom/death metal band from Donskoy, Russia active since 2010. Wishdoomdark crafts oppressive doom/death from the small Tula region town over a decade and a half of underground dedication.
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.
Out of Warwick, Rhode Island, Witch King appeared in 2023 fusing black and death metal into a compact and malevolent package. Their sound leans into the collision between blasted extremity and riff-driven death metal brutality — a short but vicious run so far. New England's tight-knit extreme metal underground has clearly left its mark on their early output.
Portland, Oregon's Witchbones have been operating since 2014 in the slow-moving territory where death metal meets funeral doom — crushing, suffocating, and utterly deliberate. Their sound eschews speed for density, piling on layers of guttural heaviness that demand patience from the listener. They are a fixture of Portland's consistently strong underground metal scene.
Cleveland's Witchery are a death metal outfit active since 2011, drawing on the city's long and storied tradition of heavy underground music. Cleveland has produced some of the American Midwest's most unforgiving metal, and this band slots into that lineage with no-frills death metal built for aggression over atmosphere. The shared Bandcamp handle with their Arizona namesake makes them easy to confuse, but the death metal pedigree here is distinctly its own.
Speed, thrash, and death metal band from Antibes, France active since 2012. Witches unleashes a triple assault of extreme speed, thrash precision, and death metal heaviness from the French Riviera.
Atlanta's WitchKing emerged in 2015 where death metal and deathcore meet, combining the technical brutality of modern death metal with the breakdowns and structural ambition of the deathcore world. Georgia's larger metal scene has grown considerably in the 2010s, and Atlanta in particular hosts a cluster of extreme acts — WitchKing among the heavier entries. Their sound is punishing, modern, and aimed squarely at the pit.
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