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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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Heavy metal/hard rock band from Eskilstuna, Sweden emerging in 2025. Wizz delivers riff-driven heavy metal from the industrial city in Sörmland.
Blackened heavy metal band from Kitee, Finland active since 2009. Wizzard infuses classic heavy metal with black metal darkness from the forested eastern border region of North Karelia.
Kalispell, Montana's Wizzerd formed in 2015 in one of the most geographically remote metal scenes in the country, and that isolation informs their sprawling, cosmic take on stoner and doom metal. Their music reaches for the same vast open spaces that define Big Sky Country, building long, heavy compositions that feel as expansive as the landscape surrounding them. Among the handful of heavy bands calling Montana home, Wizzerd stand out for their genuine ambition and prolific output.
Black metal project from Zürich, Switzerland formed in 2012. WLVS channels Swiss darkness through black metal with an atmospheric and introspective edge.
New Orleans's WNKL are one of the newest entries in the city's storied death metal underground, forming in 2024 with a sound that taps into the raw, brutal tradition that makes New Orleans a reliable incubator for extreme metal. Their name — cryptic and deliberately minimal — mirrors the blunt, no-frills aggression that characterizes old-school death metal at its most direct. Still at the very beginning of their trajectory, they're worth watching as they find their place in a city with impossibly high standards for heaviness.
Dallas stoner doom with huge psychedelic riffs. Some of the heaviest grooves in Texas.
Powerviolence, death metal, and hardcore band from Aschaffenburg, Germany formed in 2018 with a vegan ethos. Their releases from Demo 2018 through Holocene Extinction and Prevail in Absence channel environmental themes through a brutal fusion of extreme subgenres.
Punishing Melodic Deathcore from San Antonio.
Black metal project from Lucerne, Switzerland formed in 2017. Woda draws from the depths of central Swiss darkness, crafting raw black metal shaped by the cold mountain landscapes of the region.
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