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Moscow's Scream in Darkness pair death and melodic death metal from the Russian capital since 2014. Their name of vocal extremity in shadow channels the cry from within darkness into compositions balancing brutality and melody.
Cuneo's Screaming Eyes arrived in 2025 with death and melodic death metal from the Piedmontese Alps. Their mountain-ringed origins lend a natural grandeur to their balance of brutality and melody.
Screams from Equestria blend death metal, deathcore, and melodic death metal from an undisclosed Irish location since 2013. Their unusual name, referencing a fictional pony realm, creates a jarring contrast with their extreme sound.
Named for the Hockomock Swamp — a legendarily haunted stretch of southeastern Massachusetts that Native Americans called a place of evil spirits — Weymouth's Screams of Hockomock have been channeling that unsettling regional folklore into melodic death/black metal since 2018. The swamp's history of mysterious lights, cryptid sightings, and indigenous warning legends makes it an appropriately eerie muse for music that blends melodic death metal's emotional sweep with black metal's atmospheric menace. Local mythology as metal fuel, executed with genuine craft.
A solo melodic death metal project from Schärding, Upper Austria, led by Marc P. Prohaska and formed in 2016, Screams of Tranquility has released four albums — "Rival The Sun" (2020), "Trails Of Oblivion" (2021), "Omens Of Death" (2022), and "No Foot's Print Ever Laid" (2023) — through SODEH Records. Prohaska blends Scandinavian melodeath, American thrash, and black metal influences while exploring themes of social excess and the erosion of collective humanity.
Scylla is an active melodic death metal act whose music draws from the genre's twin impulses — crushing death metal weight and sweeping melodic architecture — having developed their sound since 2006. Despite a US presence, the band's association with Tokyo gives their work an internationalist edge rare in American melodic death circles. Over nearly two decades of activity they have remained committed to the craft of heavy, hook-driven extremity.
Scythe of Sorrow deliver melodic death metal from Helsinki, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with themes of harvested grief. Formed in 2023, they bring sorrowful intensity to the Finnish capital's extreme scene.
Scythia channel melodic death and black metal from Helsinki, drawing their name from the ancient nomadic warriors of the Eurasian steppe. Active since 2010, they bring horseback-warfare themes to Finnish extreme metal.
A prolific one-man melodic death metal project from Minsk, SDreamExplorers has released a sprawling catalog including the "Ephemeral" trilogy and albums like "Perfectionism Kills" and "Trapped Inside Reality." The project blends introspective, melancholic songwriting with progressive flourishes and Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal riffing.
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