Brand new as of 2025, Concord, California's WinterSorrow arrive with gothic metal drama wrapped in symphonic grandeur — a style that draws on the full orchestral palette to frame heavy metal beneath layers of atmosphere and dark romance. It's early days, but the symphonic gothic metal form has a devoted audience, and WinterSorrow are already building within its most expressive traditions.

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.