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Bands Featured in Seven Deadly Songs with seven songs chosen from the noise.

Every week, Metal Lair’s Seven Deadly Songs drags seven tracks out of the underground and into the firelight, from blackened chaos and doom-laden sorrow to death metal violence, gothic atmosphere, prog weirdness, hardcore fury, and the strange mutant sounds living between genres.

Some come from legends.
Some come from bands rehearsing in sweat-soaked rehearsal spaces somewhere nobody’s looking yet.

There’s no paid placement, no algorithm worship and no recycled hype machine.

Every pick earns its place. No repeats. No filler. No mercy.

This is a growing archive of every band ever featured in Seven Deadly Songs. It’s a living graveyard of riffs, discovery, obsession, and volume.

Welcome to the ritual.

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Seven Deadly Songs Artist Directory (A–Z)

1986

A Pale Horse Named Death

Abandon Agony

Ab-Natural

Abigail Williams

Abruptus

Aborted

Abuser

Abysmal Rites

Acranius

Acacia Strain

Aceves

Adgar

Æther Realm

After Earth

Agarwaen

Age of Ruin

Akhlys

Aligned in Ruins

Alestorm

Allegaeon

All We Leave Behind

Alvader

Amberian Dawn

Ambush

Amorphis

Anchorite

Anima

Ancient Bards

Ancient Thrones

Angela Gassow

Angellore

Anger Machine

Animals As Leaders

Animalize

Antirope

Anthology

Arch Enemy

Arcane Fros

Armed For Apocalypse

As I Lay Dying

Astral Spectre

Ater

Austere

Autumnblaze

Autumns Dawn

Aversions Crown

Azathoth’s Dream

B

Bad Marriage

Bangover

Balt Huttar

BalashToth

Battlesnake

Beastial Goat Desecrator

Before The Dawn

Bedsore

Behemoth

Believe in Nothing

Belphegor

Benediction

Benefactor Decease

Bengal Tigers

Bikini Kill

Biohazard

Bizarrekult

Blackbraid

Black Label Society

Black Mold

Black Path

Black Sabbath

Black Soul Horde

Blackthorn

Bleed From Within

Bleeding Through

Blizzen

Bloody Falls

Bloody Moon

Bloody Valkryia

Bloodywood

Bloodbath

Blood Incantation

Bloodletter

Bloodred Hourglass

Bloodride

Blood Vulture

Blossom Death

Body Count

Boisson Divine

Bogwife

Bonginator

Booby Trap

Bozopogostickstomp

Bound in Fear

Bound To Prevail

Borracho

Breaths

BRÜLE

Bullet

Bygon

C

Cabal

Cadaver Shrine

Cannibal Corpse

Captain Blackbeard

Carcass

Carnivore A.D.

Cattle Decapitation

Celtic Frost

Cemican

Cemetery Reign

Circle of Origin

Chalice of Suffering

Chronic Hate

Class Traitor

Cnoc An Tursa

Code Orange

Code Red

Coffin Feeder

Cold in Berlin

Colossal Rains

Concrete

Confess

Conjuring

Conquer Divide

Consanguine

Coprolith

Corruption

Coscradh

Cosmic Reaper

Cradle of Filth

Cranial Evaluation

Creeping Fear

Crematory

Crimson Butchery

Crimson Day

Crimson Shadows

Crippled Black Phoenix

Cruel Intentions

Crypt Monarch

Crypt Sermon

Cryptopsy

Crowne

Crows Flight

Cruel Bomb

Cutthroat

D

Danzig

Dark Chapel

Darklon

Darko

Dawn of Solace

Day 40

Deadguy

Death

Death Before Dishonor

Death Whore

Ded

Det

Decimator

Defamatory

Defeated Sanity

Defenestration Hypergravity Cranial Evacuation

Demande A La Poussiere

Demeted Naiad

Demonic Death Judge

Desert Storm

Dethklok

Devin Townsend

Devil Driver

Devilhusk

Dewichor

Dimmu Borgir

Domhain

Doomsday

Doomsday Profit

Doodswens

Doro Pesch

Downfall of Mankind

Drain

Dreamlord

Dream Theater

Druidess

Dusk

Dust

Dying Fetus

Dynazty

Dysentery

Dysemble

E

Ectovoid

Edge of Paradise

Edit The Tide

Edenbridge

Eld Varg

Eluveitie

Emasculator

Enemy Awake

Ensiferum

Enthroned

Erdling

Eternal Dark

Eternal Evil

Eternal Recurrence

Eudaemon

Evig Natt

Evil Beast

Executionist

Exist Immortal

Extermination Dismemberment

F

Fabula Rasa

Fabulous Desaster

Faith No More

Fairyland

Fangus

Fear Factory

Fear Not

Fear of Domination

Feed Them Broken Teeth

Furnace

Festerdecay

Feuerschwanz

Fighter V

Final Coil

Final Error

Fire Action & Them

Firstborne

Flagg

Flitcraft

Fleshcrawl

Fleshgod Apocalypse

Following The Signs

For Ruin

Fractal Universe

Frost*

From The Crypt

Full House Brew Crew

Full of Hell

Furnace

Funeral

G

Gaahls Wyrd

Gaerea

GaiaBeta

Game Over

Gamma Bomb

Gaupa

Ghost

Goat Rider

Godthrymm

Gojira

Ghoulhouse

Gideon

Gladenfold

Glasgow Kiss

Golgothan Remains

Goddark

Goatpsalm

Gormoth

Goya

Grain of Pain

Grave Ghoul

Green Eyes of Darkness

Greyhawk

Grief Collector

Gruesome

Guilt Trip

Gun

Gunslinger

Gutless

H

Haema

Haemoth

Hammer King

Hangfire

Håndgemeng

Harakiri For The Sky

Haunt

H.E.A.T.

Heavenfall

Heaven is Sleeping

Heavenwood

Heavy Pettin’

Hecate

Hellbearer

Hellrazer

Hellripper

Heriot

Hibernaut

Hideous Divinity

HOG

Hollow Peak

Hooded Menace

Horslips

Hot Ram

Human Fortress

Humanity Zero

Hyperstrike

I

I, Cursed

Ildaruni

Imperial Triumphant

Incite

Indica Blues

In The Kingdon of Nightmares

In Malice’s Wake

Inhuman Architects

Inhuman Nature

Inthraced

In/Vertigo

Insania

Into The Fray

Iotunn

Iron Bones

Iron Cobra

Iron Kingdom

Iron Maiden

Iron Mind

Ironrat

Iron Spell

Ironwill

Iselder

J

Jester Majesty

Jet Jaguar

Jinjer

Jonathan Holten

Judicator

Justice For The Damned

K

Karloff

Karate Steve

Kerbdog

Kerrigan

Kiljin

King Kraken

King Parrot

King Witch

Killswitch Engage

Korp

Krushor

Krematorium

Kublai Khan TX

L

Lamb of God

Larissa stupar

Last Chance To Reason

Leatherhead

Les Bâtards

Lionheart

Lion’s Share

Living Dead Girl

Locus Noir

Lomor

Lord Vigo

Lucille

Lychgate

LYLVC

M

Mägo De Oz

Malevolence

Malefic Throne

Malices Wake

Man Must Die

Many Eyes

Mariana’s Rest

Marissa Martinez – Hoadley

Marilyn Manson

Masquerage

Margarita Witch Cult

Mascara

Mass Deception

Mattador

Mastodon

Mega Colossus

Melt4

Mendeed

Mercenary

Meridian

Meshuggah

Midieval Demon

Midnight Fortress

Midnite City

Miriah

Monstrosity

Mono Inc.

Moral Implant

Moribund Oblivion

Mork Gryning

Mørket

Mortician

Motorjesus

Mourne The Light

Mourning Wood

Mugshot

Múr

Mushroomhead

My Dying Bride

Myles Kennedy

N

Nattradio

Necrokinesis

Necrosexual

Nefarious

Nefastis

Nervosa

Never Fall

New Mexican Doom Cult

Niemaracz

Nights of Malice

Niovel

Nita Strauss

Nite

Nite Stinger

No Apologies

No Heros

No Sweat

Noirsuaire

Noizzy

Noosed

Norgaahl

Norma Jean

Nothing

Novelist FR

Nullingroots

Nxmad

O

Oak

Obsidian Tongue

Orga Mecha

Olde Outlier

Oldowan Gash

Onslaught

Opeth

Ophelia’s Eyes

P

Paganizer

Paisaunt

Pandemic Outbreak

Pantera

Paradise Lost

Paranoid Visions

Past Glories

Pathogenic

Perpetual Paradox

Persekutor

Phantomy

Piece

Power Trip

Praetor

Precious Blood

Predatory Void

Premier Jester

Primal Scourge

Primordial

Primordial Black

Puritan Bone

Putriditium

Pythia

R

Raging Speedhorn

Ramonda

Rave in Fire

Relics of Humanity

Remina

Restless Spirit

Retromorphosis

Riket

Rising Steel

Rivers of Nihil

Rock Justice

Rosetta

Rotting Christ

Roth

Ryujin

S

Saasta

Sacred Leather

Sadistic Force

Sadistic Goatmessish

Sadael

Saor

Sakis Tolis

Saltwound

Sandstorm

Sanhedrin

Sarastus

Scordatura

Scratch One Grub

Sean Yseult

Sense of Fear

Sepulchral

Sepultura

Serpent Gates

Serpent God

Seven Metal Sins

Sexmag

Shadecrown

Shadowmass

Sheev

Shine

Sick N’ Beautiful

Sicksense

Silaera

Sinamort

Sin of God

Sinsaenum

Sintage

Skeleton Witch

Skull Altar

Slaughterday

Slave Machine

Sleeping Giant

Slowmatics

Slung

Sodden

Solace

Soothsayer

Soulbound

Space of Variations

Speedway

Split Chain

Spiritbox

StarForce

Stargazery

Starlit Pyre

Statement

Steel Balls

Stonus

Stone Fist

Strigoi

Stress Test

Struck A Nerve

Struck/Down

Sunn O)))

Sun of The Dying

Superheaven

Suicide

Suicide Silence

Sybreed

Sweet Savage

T

Tailgunner

Telepathy

Temair

Tempered

Templar

Temple Balls

Temple of Discord

Temple of Katharsis

Temple of Void

Temptress

Temtris

Terzij de Horde

The Almighty

The Black Dahlia Murder

The Devil Wears Prada

The D.O.O.D.

The Fals

The Great Old Ones

The Halo Effect

The Haunted

The Losts

The Old Dead Tree

The Pale Horses

The Risen Dread

The Solitude

The Storyteller

Them

Thin Lizzy

This Gift is A Curse

Thorium

Thorn

Throne of Desolation

Thunderor

Thy Catafalque

Tiffany Kills

TodoMal

Tooms

Torvus

Total Annihilation

Tragos

Triumpher

Trigger

Type O Negative

U

Unbounded Terror

Unchosen Ones

Under Cold Sun

Unearthly Rites

Unfyros

Unen

Unverkalt

Uragh

Urne

Ültra Raptör

V

Valiant Sentinel

Valontuoja

Vansind

Vader

Vended

Venger

Venom

Vertebrae

Vestige

Via Doloris

Vindicator

Violator

Viscous Rain

Viserion

Vision Divine

Visions of Atlantis

Void of Light

Voraath

Vreid

Vulgar Dissection

Vulvarine

W

Wardruna

Wailing Banshee

Walk With Titans

Warning

Warbringer

Warkings

Warhog

Warsenal

Warside

Weald & Woe

Weapons of God

We Came As Romans

Weazzel

Wednesday 13

Wildfire

Wildhunt

Winterfylleth

Witch Piss

Witchrot

Wizard

Woods of Ypres

Wolftooth

Wolverine

Wolfbastard

Wolfchant

Wolfpack Heading Nowhere

Wrath of Logarius

Wytch Hazel

Y

Ysbrydnos

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Seven Deadly Songs; The Complete Playlist Archive

1986

Song: Black Mirror

Album: Carniveil (2026

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A Pale Horse Named Death

Song: Shallow Grave

Album: Lay My Soul To Waste (2013)

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Abandon Agony

Ab-Natural

Abigail Williams

Abruptus

Aborted

Abuser

Abysmal Rites

Acranius

Acacia Strain

Aceves

Adgar

Æther Realm

After Earth

Age of Ruin

Akhlys

Aligned in Ruins

Alestorm

Allegaeon

All We Leave Behind

Alvader

Ambush

Amorphis

Anchorite

Anima

Ancient Bards

Ancient Thrones

Angela Gassow

Angellore

Anger Machine

Animals As Leaders

Animalize

Antirope

Anthology

Arch Enemy

Arcane Frost

Song: Swarming Rats

Album: Nights Cavalry (2026)

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Armed For Apocalypse

As I Lay Dying

Astral Spectre

Ater

Austere

Autumns Dawn

Aversions Crown

Song: The Breeding Process

Album: The Breeding Process (2018)

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Azathoth’s Dream

B

Bad Marriage

Bangover

Balt Huttar

BalashToth

Battlesnake

Beastial Goat Desecrator

Before The Dawn

Bedsore

Behemoth

Believe in Nothing

Belphegor

Benediction

Benefactor Decease

Bengal Tigers

Bikini Kill

Biohazard

Bizarrekult

Blackbraid

Black Label Society

Black Mold

Black Path

Black Sabbath

Song: Black Sabbath

Album: Black Sabbath (1970)

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Black Soul Horde

Blackthorn

Bleed From Within

Bleeding Through

Blizzen

Bloody Falls

Bloody Moon

Bloody Valkryia

Bloodywood

Bloodbath

Song: Bathe in Blood

Album: Resurrection Through Carnage (2023)

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Blood Incantation

Song: Stargate

Album: Absolute Elsewhere (2024)

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Bloodletter

Bloodred Hourglass

Bloodride

Blood Vulture

Blossom Death

Body Count

Boisson Divine

Bogwife

Bonginator

Booby Trap

Bozopogostickstomp

Song: Show Me Tariffs

Album: Getting Cancelled For Dummies

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Bound in Fear

Bound To Prevail

Borracho

Breaths

BRÜLE

Bullet

Bygon

C

Cabal

Cadaver Shrine

Cannibal Corpse

Captain Blackbeard

Carcass

Carnivore A.D.

Cattle Decapitation

Celtic Frost

Cemican

Cemetery Reign

Circle of Origin

Chalice of Suffering

Chronic Hate

Class Traitor

Cnoc An Tursa

Code Orange

Coffin Feeder

Cold in Berlin

Colossal Rains

Concrete

Confess

Conjuring

Conquer Divide

Consanguine

Corruption

Coscradh

Cosmic Reaper

Cradle of Filth

Cranial Evaluation 

Creeping Fear

Crematory

Crimson Butchery

Crimson Day

Crimson Shadows

Crippled Black Phoenix

Cruel Intentions 

Crypt Monarch 

Crypt Sermon

Cryptopsy

Crowne

Crows Flight

Cruel Bomb

Cutthroat

D

Danzig

Dark Chapel

Darklon

Darko

Dawn of Solace

Day 40

Deadguy

Death

Death Before Dishonor

Death Whore

Ded

Det

Decimator

Defamatory

Defeated Sanity

Defenestration Hypergravity Cranial Evacuation

Demande A La Poussiere

Demeted Naiad

Demonic Death Judge

Desert Storm

Dethklok

Devin Townsend

Devil Driver

Devilhusk

Dewichor

Dimmu Borgir

Domhain

Doomsday

Doomsday Profit

Doodswens

Doro Pesch

Downfall of Mankind

Drain

Dreamlord

Dream Theater

Dusk

Dust

Dying Fetus

Dynazty

Dysentery

Dysemble

E

Ectovoid

Edge of Paradise

Edit The Tide

Edenbridge

Eld Varg

Eluveitie

Emasculator

Enemy Awake

Song: My Hell is Yours

Album: Rotten Soul (2026)

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Ensiferum

Enthroned

Erdling

Eternal Dark

Eternal Evil

Eternal Recurrence

Eudaemon

Evig Natt

Evil Beast

Executionist

Exist Immortal

Extermination Dismemberment

F

Fabula Rasa

Fabulous Desaster

Faith No More

Fairyland

Fangus

Fear Factory

Fear Not

Fear of Domination

Feed Them Broken Teeth

Song: Damnatio Memoriae

Album: Poison of The Masses (2026)

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Furnace

Festerdecay

Feuerschwanz

Fighter V

Final Coil

Final Error

Fire Action & Them

Firstborne

Flagg

Flitcraft

Fleshcrawl

Fleshgod Apocalypse 

Following The Signs

For Ruin

Fractal Universe

Frost*

From The Crypt

Full House Brew Crew

Full of Hell

Furnace

Funeral

G

Gaahls Wyrd

Gaerea

GaiaBeta

Game Over

Gamma Bomb

Gaupa

Ghost

Goat Rider

Godthrymm

Gojira

Ghoulhouse

Gideon

Gladenfold

Glasgow Kiss

Golgothan Remains

Goddark

Goatpsalm

Gormoth

Goya

Grain of Pain

Grave Ghoul

Green Eyes of Darkness

Greyhawk

Grief Collector

Gruesome

Guilt Trip

Gun

Gunslinger

Gutless

H

Haema

Haemoth

Hammer King

Hangfire

Håndgemeng

Harakiri For The Sky

Haunt

H.E.A.T.

Heavenfall

Heaven is Sleeping

Heavenwood

Heavy Pettin’

Hecate

Hellbearer

Hellrazer

Hellripper

Heriot

Hibernaut

Hideous Divinity

Song: The Numinous One

Album: Unextinct (2024)

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HOG

Hollow Peak

Hooded Menace

Horslips

Hot Ram

Human Fortress

Humanity Zero

Hyperstrike

I

I, Cursed

Ildaruni

Imperial Triumphant

Incite

Indica Blues

In The Kingdon of Nightmares 

In Malice’s Wake

Inhuman Architects

Inhuman Nature

Inthraced

In/Vertigo

Insania

Into The Fray

Iotunn

Iron Bones

Iron Cobra

Iron Kingdom

Iron Maiden

Iron Mind

Ironrat

Iron Spell

Ironwill

Iselder

J

Jester Majesty

Jet Jaguar

Jinjer

Jonathan Holten

Judicator

Justice For The Damned

K

Karloff

Karate Steve

Kerbdog

Kerrigan

Kiljin

Song: Disjointed

Album: Too Far Gone (2026)

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King Kraken

King Parrot

King Witch

Killswitch Engage

Korp

Krushor

Krematorium

Kublai Khan TX

L

Lamb of God

Larissa stupar

Last Chance To Reason

Leatherhead

Les Bâtards 

Lionheart

Lion’s Share

Living Dead Girl

Locus Noir

Lomor

Lord Vigo

Lucille

Lychgate

LYLVC

M

Mägo De Oz

Malevolence

Malefic Throne

Malices Wake

Man Must Die

Many Eyes

Mariana’s Rest

Marissa Martinez – Hoadley

Marilyn Manson

Masquerage

Margarita Witch Cult

Mascara

Mass Deception

Mattador

Mastodon

Mega Colossus

Melt4

Mendeed

Mercenary

Meridian

Meshuggah

Midieval Demon

Midnight Fortress

Midnite City

Miriah

Monstrosity

Mono Inc.

Moral Implant

Moribund Oblivion

Mork Gryning

Mørket

Mortician

Motorjesus

Mourne The Light

Mourning Wood

Mugshot

Múr

Mushroomhead

My Dying Bride

Myles Kennedy

N

Nattradio

Necrokinesis

Necrosexual

Nefarious

Nefastis

Nervosa

Never Fall

New Mexican Doom Cult

Niemaracz

Nights of Malice

Niovel

Nita Strauss

Nite

Nite Stinger

No Apologies

No Heros

No Sweat

Noirsuaire

Noizzy

Noosed

Norgaahl

Norma Jean

Nothing

Novelist FR

Nullingroots

O

Oak

Obsidian Tongue

Olde Outlier

Oldowan Gash

Onslaught

Opeth

Ophelia’s Eyes

P

Paganizer

Paisaunt

Pandemic Outbreak

Pantera

Paradise Lost

Paranoid Visions

Past Glories

Pathogenic

Perpetual Paradox

Persekutor

Phantomy

Piece

Power Trip

Praetor

Precious Blood

Predatory Void

Premier Jester

Primal Scourge

Primordial

Primordial Black

Puritan Bone

Putriditium

Pythia

R

Raging Speedhorn

Ramonda

Rave in Fire

Relics of Humanity

Remina

Restless Spirit

Retromorphosis

Riket

Rising Steel

Rivers of Nihil

Rosetta

Rotting Christ

Roth

Ryujin

S

Saasta

Sacred Leather

Sadistic Force

Sadistic Goatmessish

Sadael

Saor

Sakis Tolis

Saltwound

Sandstorm

Sanhedrin

Sarastus

Scordatura

Scratch One Grub

Sean Yseult

Sense of Fear

Sepulchral

Sepultura

Serpent Gates

Serpent God

Seven Metal Sins

Sexmag

Shadecrown

Shadowmass

Sheev

Shine

Sick N’ Beautiful

Sicksense

Silaera

Sinamort

Sin of God

Sinsaenum

Sintage

Skeleton Witch

Skull Altar

Slaughterday

Slave Machine

Sleeping Giant

Slowmatics

Slung

Sodden

Soulbound

Space of Variations

Speedway

Split Chain

Spiritbox

StarForce

Stargazery

Starlit Pyre

Statement

Stonus

Stone Fist

Strigoi

Stress Test

Struck A Nerve

Struck/Down

Sunn O)))

Sun of The Dying

Superheaven

Suicide

Song: Frankie Teardrop

Album: Suicide (1977)

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Suicide Silence

Sybreed

Sweet Savage

T

Tailgunner

Telepathy

Temair

Tempered

Templar

Temple Balls

Temple of Discord

Temple of Katharsis

Temple of Void

Temptress

Temtris

Terzij de Horde

The Almighty

The Black Dahlia Murder

The Devil Wears Prada

The D.O.O.D.

The Fals

The Great Old Ones

The Halo Effect

The Haunted

The Losts

The Old Dead Tree

The Pale Horses

The Risen Dread

The Solitude

The Storyteller

Them

Thin Lizzy

This Gift is A Curse

Thorium

Thorn

Throne of Desolation

Thunderor

Thy Catafalque

Tiffany Kills

Tooms

Torvus

Total Annihilation

Tragos

Triumpher

Trigger

Type O Negative

U

Unbounded Terror

Unchosen Ones

Under Cold Sun

Unearthly Rites

Unfyros

Unen

Unverkalt

Uragh

Urne

Ültra Raptör

V

Valiant Sentinel

Valontuoja

Vansind

Vader

Vended

Venger

Venom

Vertebrae

Vestige

Via Doloris

Vindicator

Violator

Viscous Rain

Viserion

Vision Divine

Visions of Atlantis

Void of Light

Voraath

Vreid

Vulgar Dissection 

Vulvarine

W

Wardruna

Wailing Banshee

Walk With Titans

Warning

Warbringer

Warkings

Warhog

Warsenal

Warside

Weald & Woe

Weapons of God

We Came As Romans

Weazzel

Wednesday 13

Wildfire

Wildhunt

Song: The Holy Pale

Album: Aletheia (2026)

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Winterfylleth

Witch Piss

Witchrot

Woods of Ypres

Wolftooth

Wolverine

Wolfbastard

Wolfchant

Wolfpack Heading Nowhere

Wrath of Logarius

Wytch Hazel

Y

Ysbrydnos

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Sometimes it’s Kevin passing out mid Seven Deadly Songs.

Sometimes it’s digging up forgotten records no one else is talking about.
Always, it’s built for people who actually live this music.

If that sounds like you, you’re already one of us.

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