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Wizard Haze is a stoner/doom metal band from León de los Aldama, Guanajuato, formed in 2024 as a two-piece featuring Sergio Echeveste on vocals and guitars alongside drummer Alex Zavala. The band released their debut EP Satyr IX in February 2026 through independent channels and contributed tracks to multiple volumes of Rumble Music Promotions' compilation series. Their sound is rooted in hazy, slow-burning riff-driven doom.
Psychedelic doom metal project from Germany formed in 2017. Wizard Wolf conjures heavy, mind-bending soundscapes that merge the crushing weight of doom with psychedelic experimentation.
Symphonic gothic/progressive metal band from Novosibirsk, Russia active since 2017. Wizardmask weaves orchestral grandeur and gothic atmosphere into progressive metal from Siberia's largest city.
Symphonic doom/heavy metal and ambient band from Saint Petersburg, Russia active since 2015. Wizards blend the crushing weight of doom with symphonic arrangements and ambient passages.
Grind 'n' roll band from Zagreb, Croatia active since 2016. Wizards of Gore fuses grindcore's blast-beat fury with rock and roll swagger in a visceral, gore-themed hybrid.
Brand new as of 2024, Kendallville, Indiana's Wizards of the Damned are already staking out uncompromising territory with a sound that splices sludge metal, death metal, and hardcore into something confrontational and ugly in the best possible way. Coming from a small Midwestern town, they carry that outsider energy into their music — no industry calculus, just raw extremity. Their debut presence signals an act determined to make an impression immediately.
Blackened sludge metal band from Nendaz, Switzerland that emerged in 2019 from Visinand, a town historically affected by plague. Their releases No Light has No Shadow and Experimental Brew deliver thick walls of distortion and cavernous vocals in a heavy, turbulent approach to sludge.
Sludge and doom metal band from Ylivieska, Finland emerging in 2025. Wizards Sleeves delivers crushing sludge and doom from the Ostrobothnian plains of western Finland.
Wizardthrone is a British-based symphonic death metal supergroup assembled in 2020 around Alestorm and Gloryhammer keyboardist Chris Bowes, also drawing members from Aether Realm, Nekrogoblikon, and Forlorn Citadel. Their debut Hypercube Necrodimensions (2021, Napalm Records) combined technical melodic death metal with bombastic symphonic orchestration and science fiction and fantasy conceptual themes delivered with self-aware grandiosity. The project functions as both a serious exercise in extreme metal craft and a deliberately theatrical collaboration between established genre figures.
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