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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Supernatural Elimination is a death metal band from Downingtown, Pennsylvania, formed in 2020 and trafficking in the direct, unadorned brutality that defines underground death metal.
Superrot is a death metal and grindcore band from Rock Island, Illinois, formed in 2025 and built around the pulverizing short-form brutality that defines the Midwest's underground extreme metal underground.
Superstition is a death metal band from Santa Fe, New Mexico, active since 1993 and known for a suffocating, old-school approach that emphasizes atmosphere and density within the underground death metal tradition.
Supplication is a death metal and grindcore band from the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, active since 2004 and delivering the relentless, caustic aggression that has defined their corner of the New England underground for two decades.
Suppuration deal in death metal from Frystak, delivering punishing heaviness from the Moravian countryside. Formed in 2020, they bring fresh brutality to the Czech death metal underground.
Supremative forge black/death metal from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, channeling extreme aggression from the volcanic Canary Islands. Active since 2013, they bring Atlantic island fury to the Spanish extreme underground.
Supreme Carnage unleash death metal from Munster, delivering the ultimate brutality their name promises. Active since 2015, they bring Westphalian ferocity to the German death metal underground.
Supreme Conception evolved from a one-time brutal death project conceived in 2006 into a full-fledged technical death metal band upon their 2019 resurrection, featuring members of Heaving Earth. Albums like "The Post-Humanist Delusion" and "Liturgy Of Spiritual Disturbance" showcase their sophisticated approach to contemporary tech death from Prague.
Surface have been delivering thrash and death metal from Hamburg since 2001, making them fixtures of the Hanseatic extreme metal underground. Their quarter-century career represents sustained commitment to extreme aggression from one of Germany's great port cities.
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