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Syridas play melodic death metal from Ostrava, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with the gritty energy of their Moravian-Silesian industrial city home. Formed in 2021, they bring fresh melodic intensity to the Czech extreme metal scene.
Punishing Melodic Black / Death Metal from Lubbock.
Sysmo deal in death metal from Bilbao, channeling seismic-level aggression from the Basque Country's largest city. Active since 2005, they've spent two decades bringing tectonic brutality to the Basque underground.
Novosibirsk's Systematic Chaos deliver technical melodic death metal from Siberia's academic capital since 2013. Their oxymoronic name channels the paradox of ordered disorder into compositions of precision-driven extremity.
Systematic Failure is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Yreka, California, formed in 2017, blending the melodic sensibility and twin-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity of metalcore.
Systematic Marsmurder have been dealing in death metal from Geislingen since 1991, making them one of the longest-running death metal acts in the Swabian Alps. Their three-decade commitment to extraterrestrial murder-themed extremity is remarkable in its persistence.
Systematic Sickness Kin blend death, thrash, and groove metal from the eastern Finnish city of Joensuu, combining three aggressive genres into a methodical assault. Active since 2015, they bring organized sickness to the North Karelia scene.
Systol is a death metal band from Corpus Christi, Texas, formed in 2016, delivering blunt, stripped-back death metal from the Gulf Coast metal underground.
Sythe is a progressive black/death metal band from Portland, Maine, formed in 2014, merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality and progressive metal's structural ambition.
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