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Featured Album
The Fear (2022)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
66,50'N,28,40'E (Live in Helsinki) (2021)
10/19 @ IF Performance Hall Beşiktaş, İstanbul
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Spekthrvm deliver death and atmospheric doom metal from the Cantabrian port of Santander, building crushing compositions with occult-styled spelling. Formed in 2024, they bring spectral heaviness to the northern Spanish coast.
Spektralaeon is a death/black metal band from Wisconsin, formed in 2016, blending the technical brutality of death metal with the cold, dissonant aggression of black metal.
Spell of Torment craft melodic blackened death metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, weaving dark enchantments through extreme compositions. They bring hexed intensity to the Ostrobothnia extreme scene.
Spellbinder is a power metal band from Oakland, California, formed in 2001, delivering soaring, melodically driven power metal with the high-register vocals and twin-guitar harmonies characteristic of the American power metal style.
Spellblood deal in death metal from the Finnish underground, channeling blood-magic themes through extreme compositions. Formed in 2021, they bring enchanted brutality to the Finnish death metal scene.
Death metal band from Waremme in Wallonia, formed in 2026, evolving from death metal origins toward melodic death metal. As one of the newest acts in Belgium's extreme metal scene, they represent the continued vitality of death metal in francophone Belgium.
Spesimin is a Philadelphia-based band formed in 2020 that fuses thrash metal aggression with death metal heaviness and punk rawness, cutting through the city's underground with a no-frills cross-contaminated attack.
Spewtilator is an Atlanta band formed in 2008 that blends thrash metal speed with death metal brutality and grindcore chaos, maintaining a relentless and filthy live presence in the Georgia underground.
The Hague's Spheres deliver death metal from the Dutch seat of government since 2022. Their geometric name and political-capital origins channel systematic precision into compositions of carefully constructed extremity.
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