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Safe House (2017)
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A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (2007)
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Paper Tiger (2025)
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Fargo, North Dakota's Widow have been playing death metal since 2011, carving out a niche in one of the country's more isolated heavy metal scenes. The remoteness of the Northern Plains seems to inform the band's aesthetic — there's a bleakness to straightforward death metal that suits a place where winter lasts longer than it has any right to.
Raleigh's Widow have been a fixture of the North Carolina power metal scene since 2011, delivering the soaring vocals, twin harmonies, and anthemic songwriting that define the genre at its most exhilarating. They've built a following in the Southeast's underrepresented power metal community by staying true to a style that demands real conviction to pull off.
Gainesville, Florida's Widow and Children have been dragging stoner and doom metal through the subtropical heat since 2015, cultivating a sound that's as much about atmosphere and weight as it is about riffs. Florida's oppressive humidity seems to thicken every note, and the band channels that sense of sluggish, psychedelic heaviness into slow-burning, fuzz-drenched songs.
Feral black/thrash/punk that blurred genre lines with sadistic intensity. Active 2011-2019 before splitting up.
Stoner rock and metal band from Nottingham, England active since 2006. Widows has spent nearly two decades delivering heavy, groove-laden stoner riffs from the East Midlands.
Black metal project from Sweden formed in 2022. Widunder, meaning "prodigy" in Old Swedish, channels archaic Nordic darkness through black metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Łódź, Poland formed in 2023. Wieczny Mróz, meaning "eternal frost," delivers aggressive death/thrash from Poland's third-largest city.
Stoner and doom metal band from Toruń, Poland active since 2013. Wieczny Powrót, meaning "eternal return," crafts heavy stoner doom from the medieval Vistula city.
Formed in Ghent, Belgium in 2014, Wiegedood — a Dutch term for sudden infant death syndrome — emerged as a side project of members of Amenra and Oathbreaker, including vocalist and guitarist Levy Seynaeve. Their debut De Doden Hebben Het Goed (2015) launched a trilogy of the same name, completed in 2017 and 2018, delivering atmospheric black metal of stark brutality and cascading intensity. Their fourth album There's Always Blood at the End of the Road (2022) shifted thematic focus toward the ugliness of human nature, expanding beyond conventional black metal frameworks.
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