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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Stoner metal band from Wolverhampton, England active since 2008. Women has spent over fifteen years delivering heavy, groove-laden stoner metal from the Black Country.
Womp Rat — whose name winks at a certain moisture farmer from Tatooine — play death metal with a sense of grim humor that doesn't soften the violence of the music. Formed in 2017, they've staked out space in the underground death metal world with riffs that hit with the casual brutality the genre demands. The name suggests a band that takes the music seriously without taking themselves too seriously.
Depressive black metal project from Barcelona, Spain formed in 2022. Wonderfulight explores the paradox of its name through bleak, introspective depressive black metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Stoner and doom metal band from Rennes, France active since 2015. Wood delivers heavy, riff-laden stoner doom from the Breton capital with a primal, organic approach.
Wooden Bridge is a progressive/folk power metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, featuring members Pablo Fonseca, Rodrigo Guimarães, Rodolfo Salgueiro, Victor Hugo Targino, and Marconi Júnior. The band released their debut album "Our Hearts, Our Lives" in August 2018, recorded at 1404 Studios in João Pessoa, blending fantasy-themed lyrics with layered melodic metal arrangements.
Melodic black metal band from Ylöjärvi, Finland formed in 2023. Wooden Shadow weaves melodic passages into a black metal framework, drawing from the forested landscapes of the Tampere region.
Atmospheric doom and black metal project from Finland formed in 2021. Wooden Throne fuses the crushing slowness of doom with black metal's atmospheric darkness into expansive, immersive compositions.
Atmospheric black metal and post-black metal project from Minsk, Belarus described as "black metal from the land of swamps." Featuring music and arrangements by Daemethar, their 2024 album The Harvest and subsequent singles explore dark atmospheres through a blend of post-metal textures and raw black metal.
Montclair, New Jersey's Woodland Tomb have been fusing black metal and crust punk since 2015 in the time-honored tradition of underground bands who see the wall between extreme metal and d-beat as more of a suggestion than a barrier. Their sound carries the grit and forward momentum of crust alongside the cold fury of black metal, arriving at something that feels both punk in attitude and genuinely extreme in execution. It's ugly, and deliberately so.
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