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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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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.
Death metal band from Porcheville, France active since 2017. Worms delivers visceral death metal from the Seine Valley northwest of Paris.
Technical and melodic death metal band with grindcore elements from the Krkonoše Mountains of the Czech Republic. Their self-titled 2025 debut packs seven tracks into nineteen minutes of aggressive, forest-themed metal described as spores that "will infest your ears."
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.
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.
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.
Death metal band from Mainz, Germany emerging in 2024. Wotolom brings fresh brutality to the Rhine-Main region with a visceral approach to death metal.
Technical death metal band from Leipzig, Germany formed in 2016. Wound Spreader delivers intricate, precision-driven death metal built on complex rhythms and technical virtuosity from the Saxon underground.
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