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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Symphonic folk metal band from Brno, Czech Republic featuring a dual-vocal approach with clean female vocals alongside male growls. Their releases Vegr, Beyond the Ninth Wave, and Far away in the North draw on nature, pagan history, and mythology.
Black metal and crust band from Manchester, England active since 2014. Wolfbastard merges the raw ferocity of black metal with crust punk's urgent aggression from one of England's greatest music cities.
Originally formed as Wolfpack in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995, the band renamed themselves Wolfbrigade in 2000 to distance themselves from a neo-Nazi prison gang that shared the name. Founded by veterans of the Swedish death metal scene, they merged d-beat rhythms, crust punk urgency, and melodic death metal heaviness into a volatile and influential hybrid. Releases including Prey to the World (2007), Damned (2012), and Run with the Hunted (2017) on Metal Blade Records established them as one of the most durable and respected acts at the intersection of crust and death metal.
WolfCloak formed in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey in 2014, crafting atmospheric black metal that benefits from the moody, coastal geography of its home — a place where pine barrens meet the Atlantic and isolation is never far from the suburban surface. The project leans into texture and density, building compositions that reward patient listening rather than going for immediate impact. Over a decade of activity, WolfCloak has quietly accumulated a body of work that stands apart from the more performative end of US atmospheric black metal.
Black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden formed in 2022. Wolfcross channels raw Scandinavian black metal from the Swedish capital.
Melodic death metal band from Manchester, England active since 2011. Wolfcrusher blends the melodic traditions of Scandinavian death metal with the energy of the Manchester underground.
Heavy, groove, and thrash metal band from Eboli, Italy active since 2016. Wolfear merges three metal traditions into an aggressive triple-genre assault from the Campania region south of Salerno.
Power and thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany formed in 2017. Wolfen combines the melodic ambition of power metal with thrash's cutting edge, bringing dual-genre intensity to the Rhine region.
Pagan black/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 2013. Wolfencross merges pagan themes and nature worship with the aggressive velocity of black/thrash metal from the Iberian capital.
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