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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Black metal and crust punk band from Saint Petersburg, Russia formed in 2019. WarKarma fuses the raw darkness of black metal with crust punk's urgent aggression from Russia's cultural capital.
Crust and death metal band from Durham, England formed in 2022. Winds of Genocide merges crust punk's raw fury with death metal's guttural extremity from the northeast of England.
Black metal and crust punk band from Bradford, England formed in 2018. Woes merges the raw darkness of black metal with crust punk's urgent aggression from the West Yorkshire industrial heartland.
Black metal and crust band from Manchester, England active since 2014. Wolfbastard merges the raw ferocity of black metal with crust punk's urgent aggression from one of England's greatest music cities.
Originally formed as Wolfpack in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1995, the band renamed themselves Wolfbrigade in 2000 to distance themselves from a neo-Nazi prison gang that shared the name. Founded by veterans of the Swedish death metal scene, they merged d-beat rhythms, crust punk urgency, and melodic death metal heaviness into a volatile and influential hybrid. Releases including Prey to the World (2007), Damned (2012), and Run with the Hunted (2017) on Metal Blade Records established them as one of the most durable and respected acts at the intersection of crust and death metal.
Heavy metal, doom, and crust band from Leeds, England formed in 2020. Workshed fuses the power of heavy metal and the weight of doom with crust punk's raw energy.
Death metal/crust punk band from Karlshamn, Sweden formed in 2018. World in Ruins merges death metal's heaviness with crust punk's raw urgency from the Blekinge coast.
Punk, crust, and speed metal hybrid from Copenhagen, Denmark formed in 2018. Wölfblood fuses the raw fury of crust punk with speed metal's velocity into a feral, high-energy assault.
Death metal and crust band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany active since 2017. Wør fuses the heaviness of death metal with crust punk's raw fury from the edge of the Black Forest.
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