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Heavy and speed metal band from Elche, Spain formed in 2018. War Dogs brings the high-octane energy of speed metal fused with heavy metal power from the Valencia region.
Czech industrial metal project from Pilsen active since 2001, blending black metal, industrial, and EBM elements across a deep catalog spanning nearly two decades. Their evolution from early black metal through releases like Věž smrti and Machina Nova to 2025's Vieille Mine traces a journey through harsh electronic experimentation.
War from a Harlots Mouth formed in Berlin, Germany in 2005, fusing mathcore's rhythmic complexity with metalcore heaviness and flashes of jazz and death metal in a style that set them apart from more conventional genre peers. Their discography of four full-lengths — Transmetropolitan (2007), In Shoals (2009), MMX (2010), and Voyeur (2012) — earned them a deal with Season of Mist and a loyal international fanbase drawn to their cerebral and technically demanding approach. The band went on indefinite hiatus in 2013 following a farewell tour.
Thrash and power metal band from London, England formed in 2023. War Grave merges thrash intensity with power metal's melodic ambition from the British capital.
Sludge and doom metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland active from 2010 until their dissolution, with members including Baggy, Ross, Dave, and drummer Martin "the Harvester" Harvey. Their catalog spans The Faceless Sea through Precession of the Equinoxes, with ex-members going on to play in Fuckhammer and Slomatics.
Formed by founding members of grindcore legends Insect Warfare, including drummer Dobber Beverly. Named after the Bolt Thrower album.
Formed in 2017 out of Arcata in California's remote Humboldt County, War Möth traffics in pure heavy metal with the isolated, self-reliant energy that comes from being far outside any major scene. Their name — a nocturnal thing drawn to destruction — suits the deliberate, no-frills approach they bring to traditional metal riffing. There is something unpolished and genuinely hard-bitten about what they do.
War Prison formed in Tucson in 2019, fusing the caustic intensity of Sonoran Desert hardcore with the surgical brutality of death metal. The band operates where pit-ready aggression and outright death metal violence are functionally indistinguishable — every riff an instrument of damage. Tucson's scene has long punched above its weight, and War Prison carries that tradition forward with no apology.
Melodic death metal band from Plymouth, England formed in 2023. War Shepherd delivers Scandinavian-style melodic death metal from the naval port city on England's southern coast.
Coming out of Vinton, Virginia in 2025, War Theory arrived fully formed with a blend of thrash, death, and groove metal that sounds like it has been cooking for years. Their approach favors the visceral forward momentum of thrash, thickened by death metal's ruthlessness and given a punishing mid-tempo swing by groove. A young band with a clear-eyed sense of exactly the kind of metal they want to make.
Nashville's War Within have been grinding since 2014 in the space where thrash metal's velocity meets groove metal's locked-in rhythmic authority. They bring a working-class directness to their songwriting that feels native to Nashville's DIY culture outside the country industry — muscular, no-frills, and hard to ignore in a live setting. The groove is the weapon; the thrash is the delivery system.
Metalcore band from Dundee, Scotland active since 2014. War Within brings intense metalcore to the Scottish underground with heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocal delivery.
Black metal band from Lens, France active since 2015. Warage delivers raw black metal from the former mining region of Pas-de-Calais in northern France.
Power and thrash metal band from Bordeaux, France active since 2012. Warattah combines the melodic ambition of power metal with thrash's cutting aggression from France's wine capital.
Thrash metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England formed in 2019. Warbastard delivers raw, uncompromising thrash from the industrial heartland of northeast England.
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