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Skeleton Proof Tanks is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Ridley, Pennsylvania, formed in 2021, blending the melodic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition with the raw kinetic energy of American thrash. Their name alone signals an irreverent streak that sits alongside otherwise earnest extreme metal aspirations.
Originally from Ohio, now Austin-based. Blackened thrash perfection.
A freshly formed act out of Everett, Washington, Skelm weds death metal's brutality to hardcore's confrontational urgency, carving out a caustic niche in the Pacific Northwest underground since their 2023 formation.
An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.
St. Louis's Skeptik has been blurring the line between metalcore, nu-metal, and electronic production since 2015, an unpredictable outfit that leans into genre-mixing with an anything-goes energy rooted in the Midwest's diverse underground.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Skew fuses death metal's brutality with grindcore's short-fuse violence, delivering punishing blasts of noise from the heart of Appalachia's underground extreme music community since 2016.
Dublin's Skewered deliver brutal death metal with the impaling violence their name implies since 2007. Nearly two decades of Irish extremity have honed their sound to a razor-sharp point of uncompromising brutality.
Merrill, Wisconsin's Skies of Obsidian has been building progressive death metal compositions since 2012 — technically ambitious yet rooted in genuine brutality, emerging from a region not typically associated with the style's more experimental end.
Salt Lake City's Skies of Redemption has been fusing melodic death metal's emotive sweep with thrash's urgency since 2009, occupying an aggressive but melodically aware corner of Utah's metal underground.
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