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Worm Tomb is a death metal band from Formosa, Goiás, formed in 2025 by members Hans Donner (guitar/vocals), Weder Ferreira (bass/backing vocals), and Victor Reis (drums). The trio released their debut album "Terrifying Dimensions of Brutality" on April 27, 2025, playing a deliberately rotten and primitive style rooted in the death metal of the 1980s and 1990s.
Brutal and technical death metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 1999, renowned as one of the most technically proficient extreme metal acts in Europe. Wormed's sci-fi themed brutality channels quantum physics and cosmic horror through impossibly dense, hyper-technical death metal that has earned them an international following.
Death metal and goregrind band from Pori, Finland formed in 2023. Wormfarm channels the most visceral and repulsive corners of extreme metal through a fusion of death metal brutality and goregrind's graphic intensity.
A Texas-based project formed in 2024, Worminfestedcorpse operate at the most punishing end of the brutal death metal and slam spectrum. Brand new to the scene, the band is already committed to the genre's most extreme sonic and lyrical territory, with a name that makes no pretense about the aesthetic.
Death metal band from Porcheville, France active since 2017. Worms delivers visceral death metal from the Seine Valley northwest of Paris.
Urbana, Illinois's Wormwood formed in 2015, fusing the tremolo-driven ferocity of black metal with death metal's crushing low end. Active in the Midwest underground, the band inhabits the blackened death territory where sonic extremity and bleak atmosphere reinforce each other.
Technical and melodic death metal band with grindcore elements from the Krkonoše Mountains of the Czech Republic. Their self-titled 2025 debut packs seven tracks into nineteen minutes of aggressive, forest-themed metal described as spores that "will infest your ears."
Seattle's Worn Away have been an interesting shape-shifter since their 2013 formation, moving from doom and stoner metal origins toward a harder-edged crossover thrash and death metal sound over time. That evolution mirrors a broader restlessness in the Pacific Northwest underground, where genre boundaries are treated more as starting points than destinations.
Minneapolis's Worn Mantle formed in 2022, grafting the corrosive texture of sludge metal onto a blackened death metal framework — a combination that suits the Twin Cities underground's affinity for heavy music that is both abrasive and emotionally oppressive. The band brings a multi-genre brutality to a city with a strong tradition of extreme metal.
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