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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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Black metal project from Baden-Württemberg, Germany active since 2011. Wolfsrune draws from the forests and folklore of southwestern Germany to craft atmospheric black metal with a pagan edge.
Black metal project from Thuringia, Germany. Wolfsschrei, meaning "wolf's cry," delivers raw black metal from the forested heartland of central Germany.
Sludge, doom metal, and experimental band from Hesse, Germany formed in 2022. Wolfsschrotter pushes beyond conventional sludge and doom boundaries with experimental textures and unconventional song structures.
Black metal project from Pfinztal, Germany formed in 2016. Wolfsthron forges cold, uncompromising black metal from the northern edge of the Black Forest region.
Black metal project formed in 2020 in Innsbruck, Austria. Wolfsthurn channels the cold Alpine atmosphere of the Tyrolean capital into raw black metal.
Black metal project from Barcelona, Spain active since 2016. Wolfstonecraft delivers raw black metal from the Catalonian capital with an artistic edge suggested by their literary-tinged name.
Black, thrash, and speed metal band from Libourne, France formed in 2020. Wolfstorm unleashes a ferocious triple-genre assault of black metal darkness, thrash aggression, and speed metal velocity from the Bordeaux wine region.
Wolftooth formed in Richmond, Indiana in 2017, comprising musicians with two decades of genre experience each, pursuing a sound that fuses 1970s NWOBHM energy, stoner doom riffage, and blues-drenched soloing. Their self-titled debut (2018) placed seventh on the Doom Charts' year-end list, and Valhalla (2020) debuted at number one on the same chart, leading to a deal with Napalm Records. Blood and Iron (2021) and Wizard's Light (2025, Ripple Music) have sustained their reputation as one of the foremost traditional doom-inflected heavy metal acts in the US.
Melodic death metal band from Vaasa, Finland formed in 2019. Wolftopia channels the melodic tradition of Finnish death metal from the bilingual coastal city on the Gulf of Bothnia.
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