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Folk and ambient project from Bergen, Norway led by Einar Selvik, internationally renowned for their use of ancient Nordic instruments and Old Norse poetry. Wardruna's music draws deeply from Norse mythology and runic traditions, earning them global recognition including contributions to the Vikings television series.
Power, thrash, and speed metal band from Stuttgart, Germany formed in 2015. Warfair blends the melodic ambition of power metal with the velocity of thrash and speed metal into an energetic triple threat.
Melodic death and folk metal band from Tampere, Finland active since 2017. Warfarer blends the melodic traditions of Finnish death metal with folk elements, drawing from the rich heritage of Nordic music.
Death-thrash metal band from Mönchengladbach, Germany founded in 2005, featuring Sebastian Meisen on vocals, Christian Neumann and Felix Lemmen on guitars/bass, and Selim Karakoc on drums. After a hiatus from 2013-2019, they returned with renewed force, releasing Beast Inside, Pure Purge, and the 2025 album Rise of Independence.
Black/thrash metal band from Zielona Góra, Poland active since 2008. Warfist merges the raw ferocity of black metal with thrash's velocity from the western Polish city near the German border.
Thrash/death metal band from Brodnica, Poland active since 2017. Warflame delivers aggressive thrash and death metal from the small Kuyavian-Pomeranian town.
Thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany describing themselves simply as "Thrash Metal from Leipzig." Their 2016 debut Global Extinction packs ten tracks of thrash fury exploring themes of desolation, societal collapse, and forced violence.
Death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia formed in 2018. WarFuneralMarch channels the militaristic fury of their name into aggressive death/thrash from the Russian capital.
Thrash, heavy, and melodic death metal band from Zaragoza, Spain formed in 2021. Warg weaves multiple metal traditions into an aggressive hybrid that draws from thrash velocity and melodic death metal's harmonic depth.
Melodic death metal band from Bucharest, Romania active since 2008. Warganism channels Scandinavian-style melodic death metal from the Romanian capital.
Epic death/black metal band from Paris, France formed in 2022. Wargasm channels the grandeur of epic extreme metal through a death and black metal fusion from the French capital.
Black/death metal band from Weimar, Germany formed in 2022. Wargeist merges the tremolo-driven intensity of black metal with death metal's guttural heaviness from the cultural heart of Thuringia.
Death/doom and black metal project from Germany formed in 2019. Wargiþa channels archaic darkness through a hybrid of crushing doom passages and black metal ferocity, with releases including Fleshgate and Stille.
Black metal project from Reinhardshagen, Germany with roots stretching back to 1992, making it one of the earliest German black metal acts still active. Wargod draws from over three decades of devotion to raw, uncompromising black metal.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Umag, Croatia active since 2016. Wargrave delivers powerful riffing from the Istrian peninsula on the Adriatic coast.
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