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Sudden Havoc craft progressive death/thrash metal from the Baltic port of Rostock, building technically demanding compositions since 2005. Their two decades of activity make them veterans of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern extreme metal scene.
Sudden Loss is an Oakland, California band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlap between crossover thrash, death metal, and hardcore, combining Bay Area aggression with a menacing death metal edge.
Suffer is a Los Angeles band formed in 1993 that combines thrash and groove metal with hardcore influences, reflecting the hard-edged street energy of the Southern California metal underground across more than three decades of activity.
Suffer is a death metal band from Danville, Indiana, formed in 1993, representing a long-running piece of the Midwest death metal underground with straightforward, punishing heaviness.
Suffer is a death metal band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, formed in 1993, one of the few bands to fly the flag for extreme metal in one of the country's more isolated underground scenes.
Suffer is a Dayton, Ohio deathcore band formed in 1993, combining death metal brutality with the breakdowns and aggression of deathcore in the fertile Ohio heavy music underground.
Suffer is a death metal band from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 1993, rooted in the dense urban hardcore and metal crossover scene of the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.
Uppsala's Suffer the Consequence deliver death metal from Sweden's academic capital since 2014. Over a decade from the university city, their name of accepting the outcome of one's actions has shaped compositions of intellectually grounded extremity.
Dallas deathcore act formed in 2017, blending the crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity of death metal with the rhythmic aggression of the deathcore genre.
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