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Heavy and doom metal band from Oulu, Finland active since 2015. Wolfshead merges the anthemic power of heavy metal with doom's crushing weight from the largest city in northern Finland.
Sludge, doom metal, and experimental band from Hesse, Germany formed in 2022. Wolfsschrotter pushes beyond conventional sludge and doom boundaries with experimental textures and unconventional song structures.
Wolftooth formed in Richmond, Indiana in 2017, comprising musicians with two decades of genre experience each, pursuing a sound that fuses 1970s NWOBHM energy, stoner doom riffage, and blues-drenched soloing. Their self-titled debut (2018) placed seventh on the Doom Charts' year-end list, and Valhalla (2020) debuted at number one on the same chart, leading to a deal with Napalm Records. Blood and Iron (2021) and Wizard's Light (2025, Ripple Music) have sustained their reputation as one of the foremost traditional doom-inflected heavy metal acts in the US.
Towering Heavy / Doom / Groove Metal from Dallas.
Phoenix's Wolves of Winter pull from the long tradition of doom and stoner metal — slow, crushing riffs draped in fuzz and desert heat. Formed in 2013, their sound sits somewhere between the hypnotic weight of doom and the narcotic groove of stoner rock, building the kind of heavy that settles in the chest. Metal Archives tags them with hard rock in the mix as well, pointing to a band that knows when to let a riff breathe.
Based in Boise, Idaho, Wolvserpent emerged in 2010 from the ashes of the duo's prior project Pussygutt, pursuing extreme doom and drone metal of meditative, sprawling intensity. Their debut Blood Seed (2010) and the follow-up Perigaea Antahkarana (2013, Relapse Records) are long-form works built from repetition, spiritual ecology themes, and a deliberate dissolution of structure, drawing comparisons to the most abstract end of the Earth and Sunn O))) traditions. The 2016 EP Aporia: Kala: Ananta continued the project's immersive, ritualistic approach.
Moscow, Idaho's Womb of Ash occupy the slow, suffocating end of the extreme metal spectrum, combining funeral doom's glacial pace with black metal's despairing atmosphere. Formed in 2020, they've built a sound defined by extended song structures and a density of grief that takes patience to sit with. The combination of black and funeral doom metal is punishing in the best sense — nothing about this music rushes toward resolution.
Stoner and doom metal band from Rennes, France active since 2015. Wood delivers heavy, riff-laden stoner doom from the Breton capital with a primal, organic approach.
Atmospheric doom and black metal project from Finland formed in 2021. Wooden Throne fuses the crushing slowness of doom with black metal's atmospheric darkness into expansive, immersive compositions.
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