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Winston-Salem's We Follow the Earth formed in 2023, delivering sludge and doom metal that feels rooted in the Piedmont Triad's particular brand of Southern heaviness — unhurried, low, and immovable. Their name suggests reverence for something older and larger than the human scale, which matches a sonic approach built on patience and deliberate weight. Another entry in the long roll of North Carolina bands that understand how to let a riff breathe.
Pittsburgh's We the Unwilling have been playing metalcore since 2018, shaped by the rust-belt grit and working-class intensity the city stamps onto everything it produces. Their sound is rooted in the genre's twin commitments — heavy riffs and emotional candor — filtered through the Pittsburgh ethos of doing things the hard way without complaint. A band whose name captures something real about what it means to make uncompromising music in an overlooked city.
San Francisco's Weakling occupy a peculiar position in American black metal — despite forming in 2011 under the name of one of the genre's legendary one-album acts, they carry that city's long tradition of underground weirdness and uncompromising darkness. San Francisco has always hosted black metal that bends in unexpected directions, and Weakling operates in that lineage. Whatever their relationship to the original band's shadow, they carry the name as if they own it.
Brutal death metal band from Omsk, Russia active since 2011. Weakness delivers punishing brutality from the West Siberian city on the Irtysh River.
Founded in 2003 by Vetis Monarch in Calgary, Alberta, Weapon pursued a lethal synthesis of black and death metal rooted in occult and left-hand path philosophy. After early recordings made partly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the band relocated to Edmonton and signed with Relapse Records, releasing the full-length From the Devil's Tomb (2010) and Embers and Revelations (2012) before disbanding in 2013. Their controlled aggression and esoteric conceptual framework set them apart from their Canadian peers.
Denver's Weapönizer have been waging black/thrash war since 2011, bringing the classic Teutonic-style extremity of the form to a city whose altitude seems to sharpen everything into something more dangerous. The umlaut is earned: their music operates in the savage tradition of early Kreator and Sodom filtered through American blackened aggression. Relentless, deliberately raw, and built for maximum hostile impact.
Heavy metal band from Matera, Italy active since 2013. Weatherstorm delivers classic heavy metal from the ancient cave city of Basilicata, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Progressive death and groove metal band from Dorset, England formed in 2020. Named after the Tolkien landmark, Weathertop blends progressive complexity with death and groove metal's heavy foundation.
Solo heavy metal project from Vienna driven by Philip "Weazzel" Rubenser, who handles all instruments and production. Their 2025 album Make Money Not Friends delivers nine tracks of politically charged thrash-infused heavy metal featuring guest guitarists from bands like Thunderor and Diamond Falcon.
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