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Melodic black, folk, and Viking metal band from Sogndal, Norway founded in 1994 by the late Valfar (Terje Bakken). Windir blended Sogndal's dramatic fjord landscapes with black metal, folk melodies, and Viking themes, creating a beloved legacy that endures despite Valfar's tragic death in 2004.
Deathcore band from Athens, Greece emerging in 2025. Winds of Desolation delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural intensity from the Greek capital's growing extreme metal scene.
Black metal band from Taranto, Italy formed in 2020. Winds of Funeral delivers dark black metal from the steel city on the Ionian coast of Puglia.
Crust and death metal band from Durham, England formed in 2022. Winds of Genocide merges crust punk's raw fury with death metal's guttural extremity from the northeast of England.
Brooklyn's Winds of Gladsheimr have been conjuring Norse-influenced black metal in New York City since 2016, drawing on the mythological imagery and atmospheric sweep of Scandinavian black metal while rooting it in one of the world's most urban environments — a contrast that only sharpens the music's otherworldly quality. Their work is dense with atmosphere and pagan intent.
Melodic death/black metal band from Istanbul, Turkey emerging in 2024. Winds of Nowhere blends melodic death metal with black metal from the transcontinental metropolis on the Bosphorus.
Formed in Upland, California in 2002 under the name Bleak December before renaming in 2005, Winds of Plague are among the few deathcore bands to prominently integrate symphonic elements — orchestral keyboards, choir arrangements — into the genre's blast-beat and breakdown architecture. Their Century Media debut Decimate the Weak (2008) brought the approach to a wide audience, and subsequent albums including The Great Stone War (2009) and Against the World (2011) expanded their reach within the symphonic deathcore niche. The band has remained active through multiple lineup changes over two decades.
Winds of Tragedy is a melodic black/doom metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2021 and signed to Tragedy Productions. The band has been prolific since their debut, releasing two full-lengths and an EP in 2022, followed by "Hating Life" in 2023 and "Death Wash Over Me" in 2024.
Winds of Tragedy is a melodic black/doom metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2021 and signed to Tragedy Productions. The band has been prolific since their debut, releasing two full-lengths and an EP in 2022, followed by "Hating Life" in 2023 and "Death Wash Over Me" in 2024.
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