The Worship Pain Lineage
Worship Pain did not appear suddenly. It formed through years of pressure inside Tokyo’s underground, where bodies, rooms, heat, and volume shape intention more than genre. Members arrived from different currents that were already active. Two shaped rhythm and attack inside Retch and Darkcorpse. One continues to carve Doom through Amputee and grind cold atmosphere through Swazond. Two forged structural clarity inside Funeral Sutra, a project born from earlier roots in Black Line Fever. These lines did not run separate. They bent toward each other until the convergence became unavoidable.
The lineage is not a collection of past work. It is the active material that drives Worship Pain.
Black Line Fever
Before Funeral Sutra, our lead guitar and bass worked inside Black Line Fever, a post-hardcore project built on motion and pressure. The sound carried urgency rather than austerity. It taught how rhythm can break down and rebuild without losing direction. It taught that melody, even when fractured, can operate inside tension. These lessons traveled forward.
Black Line Fever shaped the earliest sense of structure in our upper lines. It established the instinct that emotion does not require flourish to remain sharp. That instinct would later harden into the colder, controlled forms that define Worship Pain.
Post-Hardcore
Funeral Sutra
Funeral Sutra brought that earlier urgency into a colder frame. The project focused on repetition, restraint, and a sense of ritual built from simple shapes held under strain. Our lead guitar and bass came through this environment and brought its discipline into Worship Pain. Funeral Sutra treated atmosphere as something carved from limitation rather than added on top.
From Funeral Sutra we carry structural clarity, an interest in tension that does not resolve, and the habit of stripping songs down until only the necessary remains.
Post-Black Metal
Black MetalRetch
Retch is where our drummer and rhythm guitarist learned to operate under constant pressure. Rooms were small. Tempos were high. There was no space for decoration. The band forced us to communicate through attack, momentum, and tight phrasing. Retch taught us how to move directly, how to keep a structure alive by refusing to let it settle, and how to cut anything that did not push the song forward.
The urgency and repetition that defined Retch still live inside Worship Pain. They shape the way we handle pacing and how we keep motion present even when the surface seems still.
Raw Black MetalDarkcorpse
Darkcorpse pushed us deeper into physical density. Our drummer and rhythm guitarist worked in spaces that were too loud and too close. Amplifiers, bodies, and concrete walls collapsed into each other. Distortion stopped being texture and became pressure. Rhythm stopped being pattern and became something felt in the chest.
From Darkcorpse we carry an understanding of proximity. Worship Pain is written and played with the sense that the listener is in the room, not at a distance. The compression and closeness of that period continue to shape how we think about weight and space.
DoomAmputee
Amputee is an active Doom project built on slow force and deliberate impact. Our drummer continues to carve its core. Amputee works with heaviness as intention, not volume. Every strike has to matter. Every stretch of time has to hold weight. Nothing is allowed to drift.
That discipline informs Worship Pain. We carry Amputee’s sense of control into our own structures. Aggression does not need chaos to be strong. It needs placement, patience, and a clear sense of when to hit and when to hold back.
Blackened CrustSwazönd
Swazond is an ongoing blackened crust project that turns abrasion into movement. The drummer’s work there focuses on cold forward motion, scraped rhythm, and atmosphere built from constant friction. There is no safety in that sound. Air feels thin. Space feels narrow. Everything leans ahead.
From Swazond we bring a sense of atmospheric pressure into Worship Pain. Silence is never empty. Texture is never background. Negative space carries the same weight as distortion. This shapes how we handle transitions and how we use space between hits.
Convergence into Worship Pain
Worship Pain formed when these active currents could no longer remain separate. Two members carried the combined tension of Retch and Darkcorpse. One carried the ongoing weight of Amputee and the cold abrasion of Swazond. Two carried the structural clarity forged inside Funeral Sutra and before that, the urgency shaped inside Black Line Fever. None of these projects ended for Worship Pain to exist. All remain alive, shaping how we think and how we create.
Worship Pain stands inside this intersection. It is a focal point within a network of ongoing work. Rhythm, density, atmosphere, and restraint converge here under controlled force. The band evolves because the currents that formed it continue to move.
Discography Hub
Sessions, releases, and documented output.
Tokyo Metal Experience
Heat, density, and the pressure systems of the city.
Merchandise Ecosystem
Objects built with the same clarity as the music.
The Sound and Method
Guitars, bass, drums, and voice shaped by force.