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Crust and death metal band from Durham, England formed in 2022. Winds of Genocide merges crust punk's raw fury with death metal's guttural extremity from the northeast of England.
Brooklyn's Winds of Gladsheimr have been conjuring Norse-influenced black metal in New York City since 2016, drawing on the mythological imagery and atmospheric sweep of Scandinavian black metal while rooting it in one of the world's most urban environments — a contrast that only sharpens the music's otherworldly quality. Their work is dense with atmosphere and pagan intent.
Melodic death/black metal band from Istanbul, Turkey emerging in 2024. Winds of Nowhere blends melodic death metal with black metal from the transcontinental metropolis on the Bosphorus.
Formed in Upland, California in 2002 under the name Bleak December before renaming in 2005, Winds of Plague are among the few deathcore bands to prominently integrate symphonic elements — orchestral keyboards, choir arrangements — into the genre's blast-beat and breakdown architecture. Their Century Media debut Decimate the Weak (2008) brought the approach to a wide audience, and subsequent albums including The Great Stone War (2009) and Against the World (2011) expanded their reach within the symphonic deathcore niche. The band has remained active through multiple lineup changes over two decades.
Winds of Tragedy is a melodic black/doom metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2021 and signed to Tragedy Productions. The band has been prolific since their debut, releasing two full-lengths and an EP in 2022, followed by "Hating Life" in 2023 and "Death Wash Over Me" in 2024.
Winds of Tragedy is a melodic black/doom metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2021 and signed to Tragedy Productions. The band has been prolific since their debut, releasing two full-lengths and an EP in 2022, followed by "Hating Life" in 2023 and "Death Wash Over Me" in 2024.
Melodic death and folk/pagan metal project from Ostrava, Czech Republic led by Radim Kubánek with guitarist Stanislav Bárta. Their 2022 debut EP The Forlorn Path weaves folk melodies and pagan themes into melodic death metal, exploring journeys of breaking free from expectation and forging one's own path.
Windswept is a Ukrainian black metal trio from Kharkiv, formed in 2017 by Roman Sayenko of Drudkh alongside longtime collaborators. The project operates within classic Eastern European black metal aesthetics, emphasizing raw live-feel recording and improvisation rather than studio polish. Their debut The Great Cold Steppe (2017) and second album The Onlooker (2019, Season of Mist) drew from the bleak landscapes of the region, while The Devil's Vertep (2025) took a historically grounded concept — reconstructing the witch trials of 1753–1754 in Western Ukraine — as its thematic framework.
Black metal band from Södermanland, Sweden formed in 2019. Windthrow channels the fallen forests of the Swedish lowlands into raw atmospheric black metal.
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