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Black metal project from Zürich, Switzerland formed in 2012. WLVS channels Swiss darkness through black metal with an atmospheric and introspective edge.
New Orleans's WNKL are one of the newest entries in the city's storied death metal underground, forming in 2024 with a sound that taps into the raw, brutal tradition that makes New Orleans a reliable incubator for extreme metal. Their name — cryptic and deliberately minimal — mirrors the blunt, no-frills aggression that characterizes old-school death metal at its most direct. Still at the very beginning of their trajectory, they're worth watching as they find their place in a city with impossibly high standards for heaviness.
Dallas stoner doom with huge psychedelic riffs. Some of the heaviest grooves in Texas.
Powerviolence, death metal, and hardcore band from Aschaffenburg, Germany formed in 2018 with a vegan ethos. Their releases from Demo 2018 through Holocene Extinction and Prevail in Absence channel environmental themes through a brutal fusion of extreme subgenres.
Punishing Melodic Deathcore from San Antonio.
Black metal project from Lucerne, Switzerland formed in 2017. Woda draws from the depths of central Swiss darkness, crafting raw black metal shaped by the cold mountain landscapes of the region.
Viking and death metal band from Romainville, France active since 2005. Named after the Anglo-Saxon form of Odin, Woden merges Viking-era themes with death metal aggression from the Parisian suburbs.
Philadelphia's Woe channel raw American black metal through a lens of urban despair and existential fury, distinguishing themselves from the Scandinavian template with a hardcore-influenced intensity. Albums like 'Quietly, Undramatically' and 'Hope Attrition' established mainman Chris Grigg's project as one of the most vital voices in the US black metal underground.
Filthy Black Metal from Houston.
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