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Raw atmospheric black metal project from Bremen, Germany formed in 2022. Wintergrau translates to "winter grey," capturing the cold, bleak essence of northern German winters through atmospheric black metal with a raw edge.
Melodic death and pagan metal band from Finland formed in 2016. Winterhammer merges the melodic tradition of Finnish death metal with pagan themes drawn from Nordic heritage and nature.
Power metal band from Cwmbrân, Wales active since 2012. Winterheart brings the soaring melodies and epic grandeur of power metal to the Welsh Valleys.
Cincinnati's Winterhymn have been crafting folk metal since 2011, blending the genre's traditional instrumentation and pagan-inspired themes with solid heavy metal foundations. Ohio isn't the first place you'd imagine for folk metal, but Winterhymn have carved out a loyal following by taking the genre's epic, communal spirit seriously over more than a decade of activity.
Chicago's Wintering have been playing death metal since 2015, part of a Midwest city that has consistently produced underrated acts in extreme metal's most uncompromising forms. Their approach channels the genre's technical and brutal traditions through the particular grimness that Chicago winters tend to imprint on the music made there.
Melodic death metal band from Murcia, Spain active since 2014. Winterkiller delivers Gothenburg-style melodic death metal infused with Mediterranean intensity from southeastern Spain.
Black/doom metal project from the Netherlands formed in 2020. Winterkou, meaning "winter cold" in Dutch, fuses the darkness of black metal with doom's crushing weight.
Black metal project from Germany formed in 2021. Winterkrieg channels the frozen hostility implied by its name ("winter war") through unrelenting black metal aggression.
Black metal band from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia active since 2015. Winterkriege channels the extreme remoteness and harsh winters of the Russian Far East into cold black metal.
Heavy/power metal band from Kalix, Sweden active since 2011. Winterlong delivers soaring power metal from the far north of Sweden near the Finnish border.
Out of Riverton, Utah, Winterlore have been producing black metal since 2013, operating in a state where the sheer geographic scale and arid isolation lend the genre's misanthropic grandeur a particular authenticity. Their work carries the grim atmosphere you'd expect from a band writing black metal against the backdrop of Utah's vast, indifferent desert and mountain terrain.
Gothic metal band from Münster, Germany blending classical and folk influences into dark-rock compositions since 2006 across albums including Renascentia, Desiderium, Ein Tropfen Seligkeit, and Blutrot. Though no longer active, the project left behind a distinctive catalog of atmospheric, German-language gothic metal.
Black metal project from Pluwig, Germany. Wintermoon draws on the genre's atmospheric and melodic traditions to craft black metal from the quiet forested hills of the Trier region.
Black metal act from the Czech Republic formed in 2004. Wintermord delivers cold, aggressive black metal that has endured for over two decades in the Czech underground scene.
Black/post-metal band from Russia formed in 2022. Wintermorph fuses black metal's raw intensity with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
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