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World in Flames was a short-lived black/death metal project from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, formed in 2021 and active only briefly before splitting up. The band recorded original material including the track "Europa In Flames," available on their Bandcamp page, channeling the raw South American extreme metal underground tradition.
Death metal/crust punk band from Karlshamn, Sweden formed in 2018. World in Ruins merges death metal's heaviness with crust punk's raw urgency from the Blekinge coast.
Melodic death metal band from Hamburg, Germany formed in 2021. World of Sickness blends Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with modern intensity from the port city of northern Germany.
Melodic death metal band from Turku, Finland formed in 2020. Worldburn delivers the melodic death metal that Finland is renowned for, blending aggressive extremity with harmonic sophistication.
Emerging from Florida in 2020, Worm began as a raw black/death/doom entity before evolving into something considerably more elaborate — later recordings layer symphonic arrangements over the suffocating weight of doom and the corrosive grain of black and death metal. The band's trajectory from crude burial-ground aesthetics toward orchestrated darkness is one of the more striking transformations in recent underground extreme metal.
Death metal band from Ulm/Stuttgart, Germany active since 2015. Worm Cluster delivers visceral death metal from the Baden-Württemberg region with a focus on crushing heaviness.
West Odessa, Texas is not a place typically associated with brutal death metal, but Worm Food have been pushing that boundary since forming in 2023. The band brings a punishing, low-end-heavy attack to the West Texas oil country, trafficking in the genre's most extreme sonic violence.
York, Pennsylvania's Worm March has been building a catalogue of death/doom metal since 2019, channeling the mid-Atlantic's capacity for grey, grinding heaviness. Their approach leans into the suffocating intersection of slow death metal riffing and true doom pacing, creating a dense and oppressive atmosphere.
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.
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