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Surrender (2024)
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Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 (2024)
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De Doorn (Alternate Mix) (2022)
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Until We Break (feat. Matty Mullins of Memphis May Fire) (2022)
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Technical thrash metal band from Łódź, Poland active since 2016. Wolf Spider delivers intricate, precision-driven thrash from the industrial heartland of central Poland.
Black metal band from Cologne, Germany active since 2013. Wolf's Lair delivers cold, aggressive black metal from the Rhineland, channeling the genre's uncompromising spirit.
Thrash and heavy metal band from Tarragona, Spain emerging in 2024. Wolf-Gang channels the dual power of thrash aggression and heavy metal anthems from the Catalonian coast.
Named after the rare, massive stars on the edge of supernova collapse, Wolf-Rayet formed in Oakland, California in 2021 and bring a cosmically-minded intensity to American black metal. Oakland's fertile underground gives the band a foundation in the experimental and the uncompromising, and their celestial framing sets them apart from more earthbound black metal acts. The project represents the strain of US black metal that finds meaning in vastness and annihilation rather than folklore or misanthropy.
Symphonic folk metal band from Montebello Vicentino, Italy active since 2011. Wolfang blends orchestral symphonic elements with folk melodies and metal power from the Vicenza province.
Symphonic folk metal band from Brno, Czech Republic featuring a dual-vocal approach with clean female vocals alongside male growls. Their releases Vegr, Beyond the Ninth Wave, and Far away in the North draw on nature, pagan history, and mythology.
Black metal and crust band from Manchester, England active since 2014. Wolfbastard merges the raw ferocity of black metal with crust punk's urgent aggression from one of England's greatest music cities.
Originally formed as Wolfpack in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995, the band renamed themselves Wolfbrigade in 2000 to distance themselves from a neo-Nazi prison gang that shared the name. Founded by veterans of the Swedish death metal scene, they merged d-beat rhythms, crust punk urgency, and melodic death metal heaviness into a volatile and influential hybrid. Releases including Prey to the World (2007), Damned (2012), and Run with the Hunted (2017) on Metal Blade Records established them as one of the most durable and respected acts at the intersection of crust and death metal.
WolfCloak formed in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey in 2014, crafting atmospheric black metal that benefits from the moody, coastal geography of its home — a place where pine barrens meet the Atlantic and isolation is never far from the suburban surface. The project leans into texture and density, building compositions that reward patient listening rather than going for immediate impact. Over a decade of activity, WolfCloak has quietly accumulated a body of work that stands apart from the more performative end of US atmospheric black metal.
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