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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Worse than Death have been operating out of Chicago since 2011, combining death metal's technical brutality with grindcore's compressed ferocity in a city that has long been a fertile ground for both. Their decade-plus run in the Chicago underground has produced music that refuses to settle for only one form of extreme.
Progressive and brutal death metal band from Marseille, France active since 2015. Worship the Infinite merges the technical complexity of progressive metal with brutal death metal's unrelenting extremity.
Progressive deathcore and djent band from Yvelines, France formed in 2020. Worship the Useless fuses progressive complexity and djent's polyrhythmic precision with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
Death metal band from Nordenham, Germany formed in 2019. Worst Case Scenario brings punishing death metal from the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony.
Out of Philadelphia since 2013, Worst Episode Ever grind through a relentless collision of death metal brutality and grindcore chaos. Their music strips song structures down to bare, savage essentials — blast beats, down-tuned riffs, and throat-shredding hostility delivered without mercy.
Melodic death and power metal band from Barcelona, Spain active since 2012. Worth combines the harmonic richness of power metal with melodic death metal's aggressive edge from the Catalonian capital.
Death metal band from Mainz, Germany emerging in 2024. Wotolom brings fresh brutality to the Rhine-Main region with a visceral approach to death metal.
Technical death metal band from Leipzig, Germany formed in 2016. Wound Spreader delivers intricate, precision-driven death metal built on complex rhythms and technical virtuosity from the Saxon underground.
Melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland emerging in 2025. Wounded in Forest brings fresh melodic death metal from the subarctic forests of northern Finland.
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