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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black, thrash, and speed metal band from Libourne, France formed in 2020. Wolfstorm unleashes a ferocious triple-genre assault of black metal darkness, thrash aggression, and speed metal velocity from the Bordeaux wine region.
Indiana's Wraith formed in 2017 to channel the raw energy of blackened speed metal and thrash punk into something that feels genuinely dangerous. Drawing from the crossover spirit of the 1980s and electrifying it with black metal venom, they play with the kind of aggressive simplicity that leaves little room for anything but forward motion.
Black/speed metal band from Brașov, Romania emerging in 2024. Wräthhammer merges black metal darkness with speed metal's velocity from the medieval Transylvanian city at the foot of the Carpathians.
Cleveland's Wyld Timez weaponize the rawness of first-wave black metal and fuse it to the locomotive momentum of speed metal and classic heavy metal, resulting in a high-energy blast of blackened aggression formed in 2021. Their approach pulls from the leather-and-spikes underground with a restless, reckless energy.
Punk, crust, and speed metal hybrid from Copenhagen, Denmark formed in 2018. Wölfblood fuses the raw fury of crust punk with speed metal's velocity into a feral, high-energy assault.
Xandril is a power/speed metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2012. They deliver high-octane riffing and soaring melodies in the classic European power/speed metal tradition, carrying on the legacy of Hamburg's storied heavy metal scene.
Xiphoid is a speed metal band from Leuven, Belgium, formed in 2019. They deliver high-velocity riffs and aggressive energy in the tradition of classic European speed metal, contributing to Belgium's thriving underground metal scene.
Xplore is a thrash/speed metal band from Veurne, Belgium, active since 2017. They combine the ferocity of thrash metal with the velocity of speed metal, drawing from the classic European thrash tradition.
Power/speed metal turned thrash metal band from Hooglede, Belgium, formed in 2021. Their early work drew from the high-speed energy of European power and speed metal before shifting toward a heavier thrash metal approach in later releases.
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