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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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French doom band from Toulouse formed in 2011 with an extensive catalog spanning six releases including Swallow The Venom, Sang-Dragon, and Trove of Oddities at the Devil's Driveway. Their doom metal channels serpentine heaviness and occult darkness through crushing riffs and ominous atmospheres.
Heavy and doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland active since 2014. Witchtiger combines the power of classic heavy metal with the weight of doom in an occult-tinged assault from the Finnish capital.
Black metal band from Ankara, Turkey active since 2006. Witchtrap has spent nearly two decades crafting occult-themed black metal from the heart of Anatolia.
Washington state's Witchtrial formed in 2017 playing speed and heavy metal with a clear nod to punk's energy and punk's contempt for pretension, straddling the line where Motörhead meets the NWOBHM. Their Bandcamp handle's "DC" tag suggests some cross-country connective tissue, adding intrigue to their geographic placement. They are lean, fast, and direct — a throwback built with genuine conviction.
Bay Shore, New York's Witchtripper have been plying their trade in stoner doom since 2016, bringing Long Island into a genre conversation usually dominated by the American South and West. Their sound is rooted in heavy psychedelic grooves and slow-burn riff cycles that reward cranking the volume in a dark room. They are a consistent presence in the New York-area underground heavy music world.
Raw black metal project from Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany formed in 2021, with connections to projects SKXM and Todtenau. Describing their sound as emerging from a "dark and magic forest," Witchyre channels atmospheric darkness while explicitly opposing NSBM ideology.
Brutal death metal band from Almería, Spain active since 2011. With All My Hate delivers unrelenting brutality and guttural fury from the arid southeastern corner of Spain.
Groove metal band from Lascari, Sicily active since 2012. With All the Rage channels the intensity of the Mediterranean sun into crushing groove metal from the Palermo province.
Northern Virginia's With Burning Contempt formed in 2013 and have been working the convergence of thrash, death, and black metal ever since — a trifecta that allows them to be punishing from multiple angles at once. The Northern Virginia/DC corridor has a long and underrated history in American extreme metal, and this band carries that tradition forward with aggression and purpose. Their name signals the attitude: no nostalgia, just hostility.
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