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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.
Formed in 2017 out of Edison, New Jersey, Worldsucks tears through a collision of grindcore's breakneck blasting and thrash metal's riff-driven aggression. Their sound is confrontational and compact — short, furious songs that wear their frustration on their sleeve without apology.
Los Angeles-based Worldview has been operating since 2002, developing a sound that weaves together the melodic ambition of power metal with the structural complexity of progressive metal. Two decades in, the band continues to pursue the cinematic, technically demanding territory that defines the best of the West Coast's prog-power contingent.
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.
Brutal and technical death metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 1999, renowned as one of the most technically proficient extreme metal acts in Europe. Wormed's sci-fi themed brutality channels quantum physics and cosmic horror through impossibly dense, hyper-technical death metal that has earned them an international following.
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