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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Groove metal and hard rock band from Pamiers, France active since 2010. Worselder blends groove metal's rhythmic punch with hard rock's accessibility from the foothills of the Pyrenees.
Worship Him is a black metal duo from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, consisting of Occultus (vocals, guitars, bass) and Azaghlevy (keyboards, drum programming). The project released its debut full-length "Carmina Diabolicum Profana" in May 2021, recorded at Legions of Evil Studio in Belo Horizonte, pursuing a dense keyboard-laden atmosphere rooted in early 1990s black metal.
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.
Doom metal band from Gijón, Spain formed in 2022. Worship the Sun crafts slow, crushing doom from the Asturian coast, channeling the weight of the genre through reverent heaviness.
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.
Black metal band from Kwidzyn, Poland active since 2011. WorstGod delivers blasphemous black metal from the Pomeranian town in northern Poland.
Doom and sludge metal band from Huddersfield, England active since 2012. Wort channels the post-industrial gloom of West Yorkshire into crushing doom and sludge.
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