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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Blackened epic doom metal band from Gävle, Sweden active since 2014. Windwalker fuses the grandeur of epic doom with black metal's atmospheric darkness from the Norrland coast.
Black metal band from Oulu, Finland active since 2014. Wingchapel channels the extreme cold and darkness of northern Finland's Arctic proximity into atmospheric black metal.
Depressive black metal project from Finland formed in 2023. Wingloug explores the bleakest emotional depths through DSBM steeped in the melancholy of the Finnish psyche.
Savage Death Metal from San Antonio.
Suffocating Black / Doom Metal from Dallas.
Heavy metal band from Toulouse, France formed in 2022. Wings of Decay delivers classic heavy metal from the pink city of southwestern France with powerful riffs and soaring energy.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2022, Wings of Steel belong to the city's tradition of traditional heavy metal acts who look back to the genre's foundational era — NWOBHM riffing, soaring clean vocals, and a commitment to the metal aesthetic that the LA scene has never entirely let go of. They arrive late to the revival but with clear conviction for the craft.
Seattle's Winning Hard have been channeling doom and stoner metal's most hypnotic qualities since 2019, adding to a city already stacked with bands who understand that heaviness can be meditative as much as punishing. Their sound leans into the psychedelic side of the stoner-doom spectrum — fuzz-thick, slow, and built for maximum immersion.
Winona Fighter are a Nashville punk band whose music channels garage punk snap, pop punk immediacy, and a sharp sense of personality into songs built for fast impact. Led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Coco Kinnon, the trio emerged from Nashville's rock scene with a sound that is noisy, melodic, and intentionally unpolished around the edges. Their releases, including the Father Figure EP and the debut album My Apologies to the Chef, show a band that writes hooks without sanding away irritation. The songs move quickly through bad relationships, self-defense, social exhaustion, anger, awkward humor, and the refusal to be made smaller by other people's expectations. Winona Fighter's strength is tone: the music is fun, but it is not empty; sarcastic, but not detached; catchy, but still rough enough to feel like a punk band sweating in a small room. The guitars bite, the drums push, and Kinnon's voice can sound conversational one second and fully lit up the next. They represent a modern strain of pop punk that does not rely on nostalgia alone. Winona Fighter make the style feel current by tying big choruses to present-tense frustration, queer-friendly energy, and live-show volatility.
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