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Solo heavy metal project from Vienna driven by Philip "Weazzel" Rubenser, who handles all instruments and production. Their 2025 album Make Money Not Friends delivers nine tracks of politically charged thrash-infused heavy metal featuring guest guitarists from bands like Thunderor and Diamond Falcon.
Born Joseph Poole in Charlotte, North Carolina, Wednesday 13 built his career through successive horror-themed projects — Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 in the mid-1990s and the widely exposed Murderdolls, a collaboration with Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison — before launching his eponymous solo band in 2004. Drawing equally from Alice Cooper theatrics, glam metal, and death rock, the project debuted with Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead (2005) and has sustained a prolific output of horror-inflected heavy metal ever since. He remains one of the most consistent figures in the horror punk and dark metal crossover space.
Heavy metal band from Liège, Belgium formed in 2017. Weed delivers straightforward heavy metal rooted in the classic European tradition of powerful riffs and driving rhythms.
Heavy metal band from Greece formed in 2016. Weeping Willows delivers classic heavy metal with a melancholic edge from the Greek underground.
Heavy metal project from Hamburg, Germany active since 2002 with a catalog spanning albums like Superschwarz, vier Traeume, and Guerillalyrik. Weinhold also operates under The Ancient Gallery collaboration, blending German-language songwriting with heavy metal foundations.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Neukirchen, Germany formed in 2013. Welded fuses the power of traditional heavy metal with the speed and aggression of thrash into a no-frills German metal assault.
Wendigo is a heavy metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, formed in 2019. The band self-recorded their debut "Wendigo EP" at a home studio in October 2019, followed by the "Revolution Part I" EP in 2020.
Bay Area heavy metal act Werewolf have been operating since 2008 in one of the most historically rich scenes for the genre in the world — Northern California's peninsula of metal royalty. They play traditional heavy metal that is unambiguous in its devotion to the form, shaped by decades of Bay Area precedent while belonging entirely to the current underground. Old blood, still running.
Werken are a heavy metal band from Comodoro Rivadavia in the Patagonia region of Argentina, originally formed in 2002 under the name Odisea before adopting their current name — Mapuche for "messenger" — after five years. The band released three studio albums: "Plegaria al Sur" (2010), "Jinete en la Tormenta" (2014, through Icarus Music), and "Tierra Salvaje" (November 2020, through MTM Prod. Records). Their sound draws on classic heavy metal and hard rock influences including Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, and Argentine folk music.
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