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Shattered Sigh craft melodic doom/death metal from Barcelona, combining crushing heaviness with sorrowful melodies. Active since 2011, they bring the emotional weight of a broken sigh to the Catalan extreme metal scene.
Shelvy is a stoner and doom metal band from Banfield, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, whose debut full-length Vol. 1 (2018) was recorded between November 2017 and September 2018 at Estudio MAD by Marcelo D'Addona and mastered by Cesar Barrabia at Estudio Rockville. The eight-track album, which includes songs such as "Medusa," "Nautilus," and "Apocalipsis," established the band within Argentina's growing heavy underground scene.
Named for a fallen angel of Jewish mystical tradition, this Warrior, Alabama act works in the crushing slowness of funeral doom metal, conjuring suffocating atmosphere and grief-laden dirges since 2025.
Denver's Shepherd operates in the slow and the crushing, blending doom, sludge, and post-metal into a heavy and introspective sound that mirrors Colorado's vast and brooding landscapes.
Chicago doom act Sherm leans into the slow burn of traditional doom, delivering heavy and hypnotic riffing that fits naturally within the Midwest's long tradition of oppressive, dirge-driven metal.
Rybinsk's Shexna pair doom and folk metal from the Upper Volga city since 2015. Named for the Sheksna River tributary, they channel the waterways of the Yaroslavl region into compositions blending tradition with heaviness.
Tyumen's Shine My Boregarden merge black, doom, and funeral doom from the Western Siberian oil capital since 2026. Their paradoxical name of illuminating tedium channels the monotony of the Siberian steppe into compositions of glacial extremity.
Shit Hexis forge blackened sludge and doom metal from Saarbrucken, combining the malevolent atmospheres of black metal with sludge/doom's crushing, slow-motion heaviness. Formed in 2022, they bring toxic, hexed energy to the Saarland scene.
A Little Rock, Arkansas act born in 2021, Shitfire fuse the crawling weight of doom with sludge's nasty low-end aggression, channeling the swampy heaviness of the mid-South into dense, slow-burning walls of distortion.
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