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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Heavy metal, doom, and crust band from Leeds, England formed in 2020. Workshed fuses the power of heavy metal and the weight of doom with crust punk's raw energy.
Post-metal band from Pabianice, Poland emerging in 2026. Workwhores brings atmospheric post-metal from the textile city near Łódź.
Heavy metal band from Patras, Greece active since 2014. World Beyond delivers classic heavy metal from the gateway to the Peloponnese on the Gulf of Patras.
Progressive groove metal band from West Yorkshire, England formed in 2019. World Chaos channels rhythmic heaviness through progressive structures and groove metal's punishing riffing.
No-nonsense thrash metal five-piece from Diepenbeek, Belgium featuring members Bryan Heremans, Dries Schouteren, Vince Bradley, Ben Vervoort, and Bram Nijssen. Their 2024 debut album Unholy Sacrifice mixes thrash, speed, and hardcore with artwork by Paolo Girardi, exploring apocalyptic themes of warfare, tyranny, and environmental destruction.
Brutal death metal and grindcore band from Cologne/Leverkusen, Germany active since 2003. World Downfall combines the relentless blast beats of grindcore with brutal death metal's guttural extremity across over two decades of underground activity.
Milford, Connecticut's World Gone Mad play groove metal with the punchy, riff-forward directness the style thrives on, formed in 2014 in a region with a long memory for hard-edged metal. Their sound draws on the muscular, mid-tempo aggression that defined groove metal in its formative years, delivering songs built to move people rather than impress critics. They're a working band in the most honest sense, grinding out the kind of heavy music that lives best on a loud stage.
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.
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