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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Feral black/thrash/punk that blurred genre lines with sadistic intensity. Active 2011-2019 before splitting up.
Stoner rock and metal band from Nottingham, England active since 2006. Widows has spent nearly two decades delivering heavy, groove-laden stoner riffs from the East Midlands.
Black metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Widunder, meaning "prodigy" in Old Swedish, channels archaic Nordic darkness through black metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Łódź, Poland formed in 2023. Wieczny Mróz, meaning "eternal frost," delivers aggressive death/thrash from Poland's third-largest city.
Stoner and doom metal band from Toruń, Poland active since 2013. Wieczny Powrót, meaning "eternal return," crafts heavy stoner doom from the medieval Vistula city.
Formed in Ghent, Belgium in 2014, Wiegedood — a Dutch term for sudden infant death syndrome — emerged as a side project of members of Amenra and Oathbreaker, including vocalist and guitarist Levy Seynaeve. Their debut De Doden Hebben Het Goed (2015) launched a trilogy of the same name, completed in 2017 and 2018, delivering atmospheric black metal of stark brutality and cascading intensity. Their fourth album There's Always Blood at the End of the Road (2022) shifted thematic focus toward the ugliness of human nature, expanding beyond conventional black metal frameworks.
Tucson's Wield formed in 2021 at the brutal intersection of death metal and hardcore — two genres that, at their most aggressive, aren't that far apart, and Wield makes sure you feel exactly how close together they can get. The desert city provides an appropriate backdrop for music this confrontational and relentless.
St. Louis's Wieldsayer have been practicing a cold, methodical strain of black metal since 2018 — the kind of music that carries the genre's Norwegian roots while planting them firmly in the Midwest's bleak winters. There's a no-frills intensity to their approach that fits the working-class grit of their city.
Death metal project from Russia formed in 2022. Wierddream delivers death metal through a surreal, dreamlike lens that pushes the genre into strange territory.
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