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Death metal band from Manchester, England emerging in 2024. Warnerve brings fresh death metal brutality to Manchester's thriving extreme music underground.
Power metal band from Cádiz, Spain formed in 2019. Warning delivers the soaring melodies and epic compositions characteristic of power metal from the ancient port city of southern Spain.
Death metal band from Cosenza, Italy formed in 2019. Warocracy delivers visceral death metal from the Calabrian mountains of southern Italy.
Post-black metal band from Saransk, Russia active since 2013. Warona pushes black metal into atmospheric, post-rock-influenced territory from the capital of Mordovia.
Warpig formed in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada in 1968 from members of several earlier local rock groups, and recorded a debut album in 1972 that stands as an early example of psychedelic proto-metal characterized by heavy riffing, organ-driven arrangements, and a raw, blues-rooted intensity. The album spent decades in obscurity before collector interest and high resale prices prompted a reunion in 2004, cementing the band's retrospective reputation as an overlooked artifact of North American heavy rock's earliest years.
Warred was founded in São Paulo by guitarists Arthur Ernandes and Rodrigo Andrade, who built the band around a shared passion for classic acts like Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Judas Priest. They released the EP "Wild Legion" in 2013 and went on to record their debut full-length "The Siren" in 2022, a 12-track album that marked a shift toward a heavier melodic metal and metalcore sound. Singer Pedro Mion joined the band as a key creative collaborator on the album's compositions.
Warrel Dane launched his solo career in 2008 with Praises to the War Machine on Century Media Records, stepping outside his primary role as vocalist of Seattle progressive metal band Nevermore to explore a heavier and more personal album-oriented direction with production by Peter Wichers of Soilwork. At the time of his death from a heart attack in São Paulo, Brazil on December 13, 2017, he had been working on a second solo album titled Shadow Work, fragments of which were later assembled and released posthumously. Dane is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in progressive heavy metal.
NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England active since 2019. Warrior carries the torch of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tradition with classic riffs and anthemic structures from the northeast.
Heavy and power metal band from Athens, Greece featuring Andreas Sinanoglou with guitarist Bob Katsionis and vocalist Daniel Heiman of Lost Horizon fame. Their 2021 album The Mad King blends NWOBHM, epic metal, and power metal across ten tracks of dramatic, larger-than-life heavy metal.
Drone and post-metal band from Bristol, England active since 2015. Warrior Pope crafts expansive, heavy soundscapes that blend droning repetition with post-metal dynamics from one of the UK's most vibrant music cities.
Warrior Sword is a thrash metal band from Floridablanca, Colombia, tracing their roots to 2007 when they formed under the name Warrior Soul before rebranding in 2019 to establish a stronger identity. The band has shared stages with international acts including Inquisition and Enforcer, and completed tours through Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. They released "Warrior of Death" and "Through My Blood" in 2023.
Warriors of Metal was a black metal band from Mafra, Santa Catarina, Brazil, active from 2003 until splitting up in 2016. The band explored themes of black magic, Satanism, and anti-Christianity common to the South American black metal underground, and appeared on the compilation "Endless Massacre III" released by Violent Records in 2009 with the track "Strengthened by the Shadows." They operated as an unsigned independent act throughout their existence.
Grindcore and death metal band from Lille, France active since 2011. Warscars merges grindcore's blast-beat fury with death metal's guttural extremity from the industrial north.
Black and death metal band from Créteil, France active since 2014. Warshades channels the darkness of the Parisian suburbs through a potent black/death metal hybrid.
Heavy metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2013. Warship delivers classic heavy metal power from the cradle of Western civilization.
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