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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Power metal band from Cwmbrân, Wales active since 2012. Winterheart brings the soaring melodies and epic grandeur of power metal to the Welsh Valleys.
Heavy/power metal band from Kalix, Sweden active since 2011. Winterlong delivers soaring power metal from the far north of Sweden near the Finnish border.
Symphonic power metal band from Milan, Italy formed in 2023. Winteropera brings operatic grandeur to power metal with orchestral arrangements from Italy's cultural and fashion capital.
Power metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Winterweaver crafts melodic power metal woven with themes of cold Nordic majesty.
Power and thrash metal band from Turin, Italy formed in 2016. Wishmaster blends power metal's soaring melodies with thrash's aggressive edge from the Piedmontese capital.
Symphonic power metal band from Úpice and Jaroměř in the Czech Republic formed in 2016. Wishmasters channels the orchestral grandeur and soaring melodies of symphonic power metal in the tradition of European masters of the genre.
Powerviolence turned black metal band from Nijmegen, Netherlands with roots going back to 2002. Witches Brew has evolved from powerviolence origins into black metal over two decades in the Dutch underground.
Uncompromising traditional metal anchored by thrash, speed, and doom influences. Guest appearances from members of Manowar and Virgin Steele on their releases.
Witherfall was formed in Los Angeles, California in 2013 by vocalist Joseph Michael and guitarist Jake Dreyer, both veterans of White Wizzard, channeling dark progressive and power metal in the tradition of Queensrÿche and Fates Warning. Their 2017 debut Nocturnes and Requiems was shadowed by the death of original drummer Adam Sagan from lymphoma in December 2016, and the band's subsequent output — A Prelude to Sorrow (2018), The Curse of Autumn (2020), and Sounds of the Forgotten (2024) — has carried a thematic weight commensurate with that loss. They are regarded as one of the stronger acts in the modern progressive power metal revival.
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