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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Stockholm's Sweven explore progressive death metal from the Swedish capital since 2020. Named for an archaic English word meaning "dream" or "vision," their literary reference channels prophetic reverie into compositions of technically ambitious, boundary-pushing extremity.
Las Vegas brutal death metal act Swine Fucker formed in 2018, delivering uncompromising heaviness built on down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and punishing blast beats.
Swineherd is a death and groove metal band from Durham, North Carolina, formed in 2025, fusing the rhythmic punch of groove metal with the aggression of death metal.
Iowa's Swinery formed in 2014 and plays deathcore with death metal sensibilities, blending breakdowns and extreme metal intensity in the tradition of the Midwest's heavy underground.
Switchback is a sludge and stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, active since 2013, delivering slow, heavy riffs shaped by the isolation of Cache Valley's rural landscape.
Swomp deal in death metal from Saarbrucken, channeling extreme aggression from the French-German border. Formed in 2022, they bring swampy brutality to the Saarland underground.
Halmstad's Swordblood pair epic doom and death metal from the Halland coast since 2022. Their blade-and-blood name channels the gore of combat into compositions of heroic, crushing heaviness from the West Swedish shore.
Gothenburg's Swordmaster have evolved from black metal to melodic death/thrash metal since their early years. Their weapon-wielder name and origins in the melodic death metal capital have produced compositions spanning the aggressive spectrum of Swedish extreme metal.
Melodic deathcore band from Ocala, Florida, formed in 2022, combining the hook-driven melody of melodic death metal with the breakdowns and vocal extremity characteristic of modern deathcore.
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