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Seattle's Worn Away have been an interesting shape-shifter since their 2013 formation, moving from doom and stoner metal origins toward a harder-edged crossover thrash and death metal sound over time. That evolution mirrors a broader restlessness in the Pacific Northwest underground, where genre boundaries are treated more as starting points than destinations.
Portland, Oregon's Worn Hearth arrived in 2022 with a black metal approach that fits naturally into the Pacific Northwest's well-established tradition of cold, atmospheric extremity. A young band still defining its voice, Worn Hearth contributes to Portland's active underground metal community with raw-edged black metal that keeps the genre's darkness intact.
Minneapolis's Worn Mantle formed in 2022, grafting the corrosive texture of sludge metal onto a blackened death metal framework — a combination that suits the Twin Cities underground's affinity for heavy music that is both abrasive and emotionally oppressive. The band brings a multi-genre brutality to a city with a strong tradition of extreme metal.
Chicago grindcore outfit Worn Out have been honing their craft since 2017, channeling the city's rich history of extreme music into short, savage bursts of noise. Grindcore in its most functional form — fast, ugly, and unapologetic — has always found a home in Chicago, and Worn Out carry that tradition forward without sentimentality.
Colorado Springs' Worry have been trading in the sludge-hardcore crossover since 2017, building a sound that is slow enough to crush and aggressive enough to pummel. Their music draws on the bleak altitude of the Colorado Front Range, pairing sludge metal's deliberate heaviness with hardcore's blunt-force urgency.
Worse than Death have been operating out of Chicago since 2011, combining death metal's technical brutality with grindcore's compressed ferocity in a city that has long been a fertile ground for both. Their decade-plus run in the Chicago underground has produced music that refuses to settle for only one form of extreme.
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.
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