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Atlanta's Wounds of Recollection emerged in 2014 from the intersection of funeral doom and black metal, building monolithic walls of grief before expanding into post-black metal and post-rock territory. The band's evolution traces an arc from suffocating heaviness toward something more expansive and bittersweet, without ever fully letting go of its funeral roots.
Wovenwar formed in Southern California in 2013 as a direct consequence of the arrest of As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis for soliciting the murder of his wife, with four of that band's remaining members — guitarists Nick Hipa and Phil Sgrosso, bassist Josh Gilbert, and drummer Jordan Mancino — joining Oh, Sleeper vocalist Shane Blay. The group's self-titled debut (2014, Metal Blade) and follow-up Honor Is Dead (2016) pursued melodic heavy metal and alternative metalcore territory, finding a substantial audience before the original members returned to As I Lay Dying in 2018.
Stoner metal/rock band from Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia formed in 2023. Woygn delivers heavy stoner grooves from the small Carinthian town in the northern mountains of Slovenia.
Black metal and ambient project from Wijchen, Netherlands emerging in 2025. Wraakbloed, meaning "revenge blood" in Dutch, blends raw black metal with ambient atmospherics.
Raw black metal project from Wales active since 2016. Wrach channels the ancient Celtic darkness of the Welsh landscape through uncompromising raw black metal.
San Francisco's Wrack have been hauling sludge and doom through the Bay Area underground since 2016, blending the city's storied tradition of heavy music with slow, corrosive riffs built for endurance rather than speed. Their sound evokes the weight of the fog-laden coastline — dense, unhurried, and unrelenting.
Indiana's Wraith formed in 2017 to channel the raw energy of blackened speed metal and thrash punk into something that feels genuinely dangerous. Drawing from the crossover spirit of the 1980s and electrifying it with black metal venom, they play with the kind of aggressive simplicity that leaves little room for anything but forward motion.
Raw Death / Black Metal out of Texas.
The dungeon synth and ambient black metal project of Nick Superchi from Camas, Washington, Wraith Knight conjures Tolkien-inspired soundscapes of chilly beauty and melancholic grandeur. Influenced by Summoning and Tangerine Dream, releases like 'Deep in the Dungeons of the Dragonlord' transport listeners into immersive fantasy realms built on synth and atmosphere.
Black/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 2017. Wraith Rite merges the spectral atmosphere of black metal with thrash's relentless velocity in a raw, energetic assault.
A Washington State act formed in 2019, Wraithborn fuse the abrasive extremes of death metal and black metal with the modern heaviness of deathcore, creating music that's equal parts atmospheric menace and crushing brutality. Their approach refuses easy categorization, pulling influences across the extreme metal spectrum into something deliberately unpredictable.
Symphonic black metal band from Southampton, England formed in 2023. Wraithfyre weaves orchestral grandeur into black metal from the south coast port city.
Tampa's Wraithkiller arrived in 2021 carrying the torch of old-school thrash in one of American metal's most storied cities, bringing riff-forward aggression and tight, punishing rhythm work to a tradition the Bay Area and Florida scenes defined decades ago. Short on sentimentality and long on speed, they make clear that thrash metal still has teeth.
Rising from Flint, Michigan in 2020, Wraithlord channel the bleak atmosphere of their surroundings into cold, unadorned black metal that bears the marks of a city with little patience for pretense. The project leans into the raw and the grim, delivering music that feels less composed than conjured.
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