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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Soulshifter deliver melodic death metal from Dillenburg in Hesse, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with their own Lahn Valley sensibility. Formed in 2021, they bring shape-shifting melodic intensity to the central German underground.
Soulstain deliver melodic death and power metal from the Finnish underground, combining the harmonic ambition of both genres. Emerging in 2025, they bring indelible stains to the Finnish melodic metal landscape.
Sound of Silence deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from the Asturian city of Gijon, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness. Active since 2007, they bring Simon & Garfunkel-referencing intensity to the Cantabrian coast.
Soundaker play melodic death metal from Barcelona, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with Catalan musical sensibility. Formed in 2019, they bring fresh melodic intensity to the Mediterranean extreme scene.
Southern Cross play melodic death metal from the eastern Finnish city of Kuopio, drawing their name from the celestial constellation to guide their Scandinavian melodeath compositions. Active since 2012, they bring stellar navigation to the Savo scene.
Dallas, Texas outfit Sparrows began in 2011 with a foundation in melodic death metal and metalcore before evolving toward a heavier blackened death metal sound, reflecting the broader evolution of the Dallas extreme metal scene.
Spectral Resonanze is a melodic death metal project from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2011. The project released the full-length Eximus in 2019 and the EP Belenus the same year, with the full-length Nadir following in 2024. Themes revolve around science fiction and apocalypse, with orchestral and atmospheric elements woven into the death metal framework.
Spectral Voices is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Brooklyn, New York, active since 2005, blending technical death metal aggression with melodic sensibilities and progressive song structures.
Death metal band from Waremme in Wallonia, formed in 2026, evolving from death metal origins toward melodic death metal. As one of the newest acts in Belgium's extreme metal scene, they represent the continued vitality of death metal in francophone Belgium.
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