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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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Industrial black/death metal project from Germany formed in 2014. Woith merges the mechanical harshness of industrial music with the extremity of black and death metal into a cold, mechanized assault.
Grindcore band from Rostock, Germany active since 1995, devoted to "no bullshit grindcore and blast beat worship" for nearly three decades. Their sound combines old-school grind riffage, frantic thrash, and filthy beatdowns, with recent releases mastered by James Plotkin.
Sludge and doom metal band from Padua, Italy formed in 2019. Named after the famous bear soldier of World War II, Wojtek delivers crushing sludge and doom from the ancient university city of the Veneto.
Woken formed in Oceanport, New Jersey in 2017, playing thrash metal rooted in the aggressive, riff-driven tradition of the genre's classic era. The band channels the raw energy and precision of Bay Area and East Coast thrash into a sound that feels urgent without being nostalgic. Still active and building their catalog, they represent the continued vitality of straightforward, no-frills thrash on the East Coast club circuit.
Wolf formed in Örebro, Sweden in 1995, built around a foundational devotion to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal — Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest — at a time when the style was deeply unfashionable. After early demos under their original name Wolverine, the band debuted with a self-titled album in 2000 and has sustained a consistent recording and touring career ever since, releasing nine studio albums over three decades. Their sound has remained classically rooted, positioning them as reliable torchbearers for melodic traditional heavy metal.
Wolf & Bear are a Sacramento post-hardcore band connected to the Blue Swan and modern progressive post-hardcore world, with a sound that mixes agile guitar work, high-energy vocals, and rhythmically busy arrangements. Formed in 2013, the group came out of Northern California's hardcore and post-hardcore environment and built its identity through releases such as Everything Is Going Grey, the self-titled EP, and Bloodletter. Their music is often placed near the swancore lineage because of the quick, melodic guitar lines, elastic bass movement, and interplay between clean and harsh vocals, but Wolf & Bear keep enough grit to avoid sounding purely decorative. Songs can turn from bright, technical passages into shouted tension and then back into hook-driven motion, giving the band a restless and colorful profile. The connection to Dance Gavin Dance through shared members and scene proximity is part of the context, but Wolf & Bear work as their own unit because the songs are compact, urgent, and rhythmically alive. Their appeal lies in balancing complexity with momentum. Rather than using technical playing as a display case, they fold it into songs that feel anxious, animated, and built for movement, giving progressive post-hardcore a sharp Sacramento voice.
Raw black metal project from Germany active since 2012, evolving from pure raw black metal into a hybrid incorporating folk metal elements. Wolf Goat channels primitive aggression through lo-fi aesthetics alongside folk-tinged passages.
Wolf Hex formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2021, staking out ground in the crowded but fertile territory of blackened thrash — music that wears its Venom and early Bathory influences openly while keeping the riffs sharp and the tempos punishing. Providence's long history as a hotbed of experimental and extreme music gives the band a context that values sonic risk-taking, and Wolf Hex delivers aggression with a manic, occult edge. They are one of the newer acts pushing blackened thrash into the current decade with genuine conviction.
Blistering Heavy / Thrash Metal from McKinney.
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