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Regicide (2025)
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AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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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.
Melodic death and power metal band from Barcelona, Spain active since 2012. Worth combines the harmonic richness of power metal with melodic death metal's aggressive edge from the Catalonian capital.
Black metal band from Bornem, Belgium active since 2012, channeling melancholic darkness through raw black metal. Their catalog spans from early demos through releases like Grim Catharsis and Melancholic Rites, embracing a bleak and introspective approach to the genre.
Depressive/post-black metal project from Russia active since 2014. Worthless Lament channels profound despair and introspection through atmospheric DSBM and post-black metal textures.
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