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Seasons in Black forge death and black metal from the Bavarian Forest town of Neukirchen beim Heiligen Blut, right on the Czech border. Emerging in 2025, their remote, border-town origins lend a wild, frontier energy to their extreme metal.
Sebold deal in black/death metal from Hanover, channeling extreme aggression from Lower Saxony's capital city. Formed in 2024, they represent the newest wave of Hanoverian extremity.
Saint Petersburg's Secateur deliver technical death metal from the former imperial capital since 2012. Named for the pruning tool, they channel the precision of horticultural cutting into technically exacting compositions.
Second Coming have been dealing in death metal from Freiburg im Breisgau since 1999, making them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Black Forest region. Their quarter-century of activity represents a sustained commitment to aggression from one of Germany's most picturesque cities.
Second Sun craft psychedelic death/doom metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, building mind-bending compositions that blend cosmic psychedelia with crushing doom. Active since 2018, they bring hallucinatory heaviness to the Arctic-adjacent scene.
Death metal and hardcore band from Brasília, DF, formed around 1993. Their debut full-length Hell is Here — 13 tracks recorded in 2005 and mixed in 2006 — was launched at a release show at Blackout Bar in Brasília on November 1, 2008, alongside local acts Violator, Death Slam, and Cabrunco; the album includes a cover of "Stage" by English death metal band Benediction.
New York death metal outfit Secrecy have been carving out their corner of the underground since 2014, delivering the kind of dense, uncompromising brutality the state's metal scene has long been known for. Their approach favors heaviness over accessibility, rooting itself in the cavernous traditions of American death metal without apology.
Los Angeles avant-garde death metal project Secrelict emerged in 2023 with a mandate to push the genre past its conventional borders, blending dissonance, unconventional structures, and experimental textures into a distinctly modern form of extremity. The band's approach treats death metal as a starting point rather than a destination, fracturing familiar heaviness into something genuinely unsettling.
Secret Mutilation have been dealing in slam and brutal death metal from Chur since 2007, making them one of Switzerland's longest-running purveyors of guttural extremity. Their approach is unrelenting, favoring crushing breakdowns and inhuman vocals.
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