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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Gothic, stoner, and doom metal band from Rome, Italy formed in 2020. Witches of Doom channels the Eternal City's dark history through a potent blend of gothic atmospherics, stoner grooves, and doom weight.
Doom metal band from Rimini, Italy formed in 2019. Witchfield crafts slow, heavy doom metal with an occult aesthetic from the Adriatic resort city.
Heavy metal band from Geislingen an der Steige, Germany formed in 2017. Witchfinder summons the spirit of classic heavy metal with occult-tinged imagery from the Swabian Alb.
Doom, sludge, and post-metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany active from 2014 to 2021, leaving behind four full-length albums and two EPs. Their catalog spans from the 2014 EP Üntrve Bläck Metäl through 2021's Bäd Vibez Önly, with umlaut-laden titles reflecting their irreverent approach to heavy music.
Sludge and doom metal band from Lyon, France active since 2017. Witchgrove channels the weight of sludge and doom through occult-tinged atmospheres from France's gastronomic capital.
An Illinois metalcore outfit formed in 2016, WitchHammer bring aggressive riffing and hardcore-influenced intensity to a genre already saturated with extremity. Without a city listed, they seem deliberately low-profile, letting the music do the talking under the numerically marked "witchhammer666" Bandcamp tag. They occupy the harder-hitting end of the metalcore spectrum.
Kent, Ohio's Witchhelm have been hauling heavy doom and stoner riffs since 2014, working in the warm, fuzz-drenched tradition that owes as much to Black Sabbath as to the later stoner metal wave. Kent and the surrounding Northeast Ohio area have a quiet but real heavy music tradition, and Witchhelm are among its most committed representatives. Their sound is patient and immersive — music built for volume.
Witching Altar is a doom metal duo from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2013 by T. Witchlover (bass, vocals) and Peter Vitus (guitars). Their sound is anchored in the Ozzy-era Black Sabbath and early Pentagram tradition, as heard across their debut demo Vol. 1 — Goat (2013), the full-length Ride with the Devil (released on Divebomb Records in 2016), and the 2023 EP Morningstar. The band has also recorded splits with Necro and Bottomless.
Atlanta's WitchKing emerged in 2015 where death metal and deathcore meet, combining the technical brutality of modern death metal with the breakdowns and structural ambition of the deathcore world. Georgia's larger metal scene has grown considerably in the 2010s, and Atlanta in particular hosts a cluster of extreme acts — WitchKing among the heavier entries. Their sound is punishing, modern, and aimed squarely at the pit.
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