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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.
Thrash and groove metal band from Burgos, Spain formed in 2018. Wormhole delivers heavy, riff-driven metal from the historic Castilian city, blending thrash speed with groove metal's rhythmic power.
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.
Black metal band from Caen, France active since 2017. Wormkvlt channels pestilent darkness through raw black metal from the historic city of Normandy.
Black metal band from Umeå, Sweden active since 2016. Wormlight crafts atmospheric black metal from the university city of northern Sweden.
Wormrot formed in Singapore in 2007 and rapidly emerged as one of the most internationally recognized grindcore acts outside of the genre's traditional Anglo-American centers. After a self-released debut EP, their 2009 full-length Abuse earned a deal with Earache Records, who also released Dirge (2011) and Voices (2016). The band made history in 2017 as the first Singaporean act to perform at Glastonbury Festival; Hiss (2022) further consolidated their critical standing with a tightly executed set of concussive short-form extremity.
Death metal band from Porcheville, France active since 2017. Worms delivers visceral death metal from the Seine Valley northwest of Paris.
Black metal band from London, England active since 2006. Named after the demon Sabnock, they deliver occult-themed black metal from the British capital with nearly two decades of underground dedication.
Worms Under Flesh is an experimental deathcore band from Santiago de Cali, Colombia, active since 2015. They released a self-titled EP in 2016, recorded by Luis Cuartas at Demiurge Productions in Cali and mastered by José Luis Moreno, followed by a split release with MICO in 2018. Their sound incorporates noise and experimental death metal elements alongside deathcore foundations.
Stoner and sludge metal band from Menton, France formed in 2019. Wormsand channels the heavy grooves of stoner and sludge metal from the French-Italian border on the Côte d'Azur.
Black metal project from Moscow, Russia emerging in 2024. Wormsden channels pestilent darkness through black metal from the Russian capital.
San Diego's Wormskull have been crawling through a gutter of black metal and punk since 2011, building a sound that deliberately strips the genre down to something raw and street-level. Rather than pursuing the atmospheric or symphonic ends of black metal, they lean toward the primitivism that connects the genre's roots to hardcore punk's confrontational energy.
Black metal band from Portugal active since 2005. Wormthrone has spent two decades crafting black metal from the Portuguese underground.
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.
Boston's Wormwood — not to be confused with their Illinois namesake — emerged in 2015 with a sound rooted in sludge and doom metal, drawing on the Northeast's long tradition of heavy, miserable riffing. Their music carries the grim weight that characterizes the best of the city's underground heavy scene.
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