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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
05/17 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Soyuz is a US stoner/doom metal band formed in 2020, named after the Soviet-era spacecraft and exploring the heavy, hypnotic riff territory where fuzzed-out stoner rock meets the weight of doom.
Spaceboots is a raw and depressive black metal project from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2013. They work in the lo-fi, emotionally corrosive tradition of depressive black metal, pairing minimal production with bleak atmospheric intensity.
Spania channel pagan black metal from Barcelona, drawing on pre-Christian Iberian traditions to fuel their extreme compositions. Formed in 2023, they bring Hispano-pagan intensity to the Catalan black metal scene.
Dallas, Texas outfit Sparrows began in 2011 with a foundation in melodic death metal and metalcore before evolving toward a heavier blackened death metal sound, reflecting the broader evolution of the Dallas extreme metal scene.
Spawnsire is a black/death metal band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2019, fusing the cold, dissonant textures of black metal with the heaviness and malevolence of death metal in the tradition of Chicago's prolific extreme metal underground.
Speaks in Tongues is a black metal and ambient project from Everett, Washington, formed in 2018, weaving atmospheric texture into raw black metal frameworks. Their approach draws on the dissonant, introspective side of the genre, blending harsh aggression with meditative sonic passages.
Spear Siege is a Texas blackened death metal act formed in 2025, combining the aggression of death metal with the cold, blasting ferocity of black metal. A newly emerged project, they represent the current wave of extreme metal coming out of the Lone Star State.
Special Buddy Discount is a blackened grindcore band from Rochester, New York, active since 2012, fusing the relentless velocity of grindcore with the abrasive, lo-fi spite of black metal. The deliberately absurdist name belies music of genuine sonic hostility.
Species Splicer is a Lynnwood, Washington band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlapping territory of blackened brutal death metal and deathcore. Their sound grafts the chromatic density and guttural extremity of brutal death metal onto deathcore's breakdown-heavy architecture, with black metal atmosphere woven throughout.
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