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Death metal band from Wavre in Walloon Brabant, active since 2012, named after the Egyptian goddess of war and destruction. Their brutal approach channels ancient mythological fury through modern extreme metal intensity.
Selaphiel forge brutal death metal from the Cantabrian port of Santander, named after the archangel of prayer in a genre better known for blasphemy. Active since 2015, they bring angelic brutality to the northern Spanish coast.
Death/doom metal band from Sofia, active since 2022, whose name encapsulates the fatalistic atmosphere of their music. Their fusion of death metal aggression with doom's crushing tempos creates a sound steeped in existential dread.
Self Exploited Whore deal in death metal and grindcore from the Burgundy village of Varzy, channeling extreme aggression from rural France. Formed in 2023, they bring provocatively named brutality to the Nievre countryside.
Formed in 2016 in Enid, Oklahoma, Self Inflicted drag the Southern metal tradition through the murk of sludge and doom, delivering slow-motion riffs drenched in feedback and regional grit. Their sound carries the weight of the Great Plains — unhurried, oppressive, and built low to the ground. Equal parts stoner haze and Southern hostility, they're a fitting product of Oklahoma's hard-edged underground.
A relatively new project out of Worcester, Massachusetts, Self Inflicted Gunshot Wounds formed in 2021 and traffic in a raw, uncompromising hybrid of black and death metal that leans heavily on ugliness as an aesthetic virtue. Worcester has a long history of producing abrasive, extreme music, and this project fits that lineage well — dissonant, violent in tone, and deliberately difficult. Their Bandcamp presence suggests a lo-fi approach that favors atmosphere over polish.
Self Inflikted deliver melodic death metal from Toulouse, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with the warmth of the Occitanie capital. Active since 2013, they bring self-inflicted intensity to the southwestern French scene.
Akron's Self Loathing formed in 2018 and operate at the volatile intersection of death metal and hardcore punk, bringing the blunt-force aggression of the latter to the low-end brutality of the former. The band's crossover approach is rooted in the Rust Belt tradition of music that doesn't ask permission — short, crushing, and direct. They're part of a small but committed Ohio underground scene that treats genre boundaries as obstacles to be demolished.
A shadowy Midwestern entity that emerged in 2017, Self Slaughter blend black and death metal in the raw, no-frills manner common to the American underground that operates entirely outside of metropolitan scenes. Their deliberately anonymous presentation — no fixed city listed, a no-frills Bandcamp — reflects a project more interested in creating suffocating extreme metal than building a public profile. The combination of black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal's brutality gives their music an especially oppressive quality.
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