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A Washington State act formed in 2019, Wraithborn fuse the abrasive extremes of death metal and black metal with the modern heaviness of deathcore, creating music that's equal parts atmospheric menace and crushing brutality. Their approach refuses easy categorization, pulling influences across the extreme metal spectrum into something deliberately unpredictable.
Melodic black/death metal project from Baden-Württemberg, Germany emerging in 2024. Wrakjon fuses the melodic sensibility of both black and death metal traditions into a potent hybrid from southwestern Germany.
Black and death metal band from Nantes, France active since 2017. Wrath from Above delivers a furious dual assault of black and death metal from the Atlantic coast of western France.
Deathcore band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England active since 2014. Wrath of Akhlys delivers punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals from the northeast of England.
Wrath of Logarius formed in San Francisco, California, having evolved from the project Martyr Logarius, and signed with Season of Mist ahead of their 2023 EP Necrotic Assimilation. The band describes their approach as "formless black metal," navigating between raw black metal, brutal death metal, and post-metal textures without settling into a fixed genre identity. Named after the boss character from the video game Bloodborne, the project earned early attention for its layered and eerie compositional sensibility within the Season of Mist underground division.
Phoenix-based melodic death metal act founded in 2020, blending the hook-driven melodies of the Gothenburg school with the blunt force of American death metal. The Arizona desert heat seems to fuel a sound that oscillates between atmospheric guitar harmonies and full-throttle brutality.
Black and death metal band from Oulu, Finland active since 2004, evolving from pure black metal into a black/death hybrid. Wrathage has spent two decades channeling the extreme cold of northern Finland into aggressive, genre-blending extreme metal.
Richmond, Virginia black/death metal project formed in 2022, fusing the cold dissonance of black metal with the visceral heaviness of death metal in a city that has long bred uncompromising extreme music. Their Bandcamp handle — wrathbearerde — hints at a Germanic black metal influence woven into their approach.
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