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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Starless Aeon blast through death, thrash, and black metal from Dresden, combining three of extreme metal's most aggressive strains into a single dark force. Their cosmic void name and triple-genre approach suggest compositions of vast, unrelenting intensity.
Melodic death metal act from Sacramento, California, formed in 2025, Stars in the Void brings a melodically charged approach to death metal drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Starseed deal in death metal from Herten in the Ruhr Valley, channeling extreme aggression through cosmic-themed compositions. Active since 2014, they bring interstellar brutality to the Westphalian industrial heartland.
San Antonio, Texas melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2016, Start a War fuses the melodic aggression of Swedish death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
San Jose, California black/death metal band formed in 2022, Starve the Leech blends the tremolo aggression of black metal with the heaviness and technique of death metal.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, Starved delivers the crossover intensity of thrash with the heaviness and grim delivery of death metal in the American Midwest underground tradition.
Atlanta, Georgia death metal and deathcore band formed in 2024, Starved of Light combines the brutal riffing and technical heaviness of death metal with the structural breakdown elements of deathcore.
Kharkiv's Starving Souls deliver melodic death metal from the war-affected eastern Ukrainian city since 2012. Over a decade from the embattled metropolis, their famished-spirit name has channeled the hunger of deprived consciousness into compositions of melodic intensity.
Greeley, Colorado symphonic melodic death metal band formed in 2019, Starwraith layers orchestral arrangements and cinematic keyboard textures over melodic death metal riffing and aggressive rhythmic attack.
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