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Black/thrash metal and grindcore band from Brønnøysund, Norway formed in 2020. Whip unleashes extreme speed and aggression from the small coastal town on the Helgeland coast of northern Norway.
Thrash metal band from Rochlitz, Germany formed in 2020. Whiplash brings rapid-fire riffing and relentless energy to the Saxon thrash scene with an uncompromising approach to speed and aggression.
Los Angeles' Whipworm formed in 2016 combining the caustic aggression of death metal with thrash's relentless forward propulsion — a combination the city's sprawling extreme music underground has always had room for. Their name is as unpleasant as their sound is meant to be, and in LA's competitive heavy underground that is a credibility move as much as anything else. Fast, filthy, and exactly as hostile as intended.
Avant-garde black metal project from Sweden active since 2010. Whirling pushes black metal into experimental, avant-garde territory with unconventional compositions and dissonant textures.
Black 'n' roll band from Parma, Italy active since 2009. Whiskey Ritual fuses the raw aggression of black metal with rock and roll's swagger and booze-soaked attitude.
West Greenwich, Rhode Island's Whisky Fyre have been playing stoner-doom metal since 2015, which makes them one of the longer-running bands in a New England scene not typically associated with warm, fuzz-drenched heavy psychedelia. They pair the narcotic slow-burn of stoner metal with doom's bleaker undercurrent, finding the space where pleasurable heaviness tips into something more unsettling. Rhode Island's density and insularity seems to suit the form.
Death metal band from Ablis, France active since 2014. Whisper of Death delivers punishing death metal from the small town in the Île-de-France countryside.
Atmospheric gothic death-doom band from Tallinn, Estonia established in 1995. After years of crafting atmospheric doom that blended gothic melancholy with death metal weight, the band played their final performance at the Hard Rock Laager festival in 2006.
Symphonic gothic metal band from Treviso, Italy active since 2010. Whispers of Fate weaves orchestral arrangements and gothic atmospheres into metal from the Veneto region.
Atmospheric and pagan black metal project from Germering, Germany active since 2018 with releases A Depraved Ritual and Burying The Bleeding Thrones. Their sound weaves pagan themes and atmospheric textures into a foundation of raw black metal.
Heavy metal band from Rome, Italy active since 2004. Whisperz has spent two decades delivering heavy metal from the Eternal City.
Technical progressive metal from Mesquite.
Thrash metal band from Yutz, France formed in 2021. White Bastard channels raw thrash aggression from the Moselle region near the Luxembourg border.
Black metal band from Östergötland, Sweden formed in 2022. White Dawn delivers atmospheric black metal from the historic heartland of eastern Sweden.
Black metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland formed in 2017. White Death channels the freezing darkness of the Finnish-Russian border region into ferocious, uncompromising black metal.
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