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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Monolith of Inhumanity (2012)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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A new entry from Salt Lake City's heavy music scene, Shadowspire launched in 2024 merging the brutality of death metal with the chugging structures of metalcore. Still in their early days, the band represents a wave of younger Utah acts pushing against the state's underground metal limits.
Shards Beneath My Skin emerged in Prague's 2024 heavy music scene with a deathcore/metalcore hybrid that combines bone-crushing breakdowns with aggressive melodic passages. Their name evokes the visceral, skin-deep intensity of their sound.
Shatter deliver thrash metal and metalcore from the eastern Bohemian town of Jablonne nad Orlici, combining old-school thrash velocity with modern metalcore's rhythmic punch. Their crossover approach bridges two eras of aggressive metal.
Emerging from Asbury Park, New Jersey in 2024, Shattered Realm grafts metalcore's intense breakdowns and melodic hooks onto a foundation of death metal brutality.
Cleveland, Ohio death metal unit formed in 2013, drawing from the Midwest's blue-collar underground to deliver punishing, no-frills death metal steeped in the tradition of the genre's American roots.
South Texas metalcore/thrash with interconnected members from Upon a Burning Body.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin's Shield the Survivors play mid-heavy metalcore with an earnest intensity, contributing to the Midwest's steady underground metalcore scene since their formation in 2012.
Metalcore/thrash metal band from Kortrijk with hardcore influences, active since 2017. Their aggressive fusion blends the rhythmic punch of metalcore with thrash metal's velocity and hardcore's confrontational attitude.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from the Mons and Tournai area in Hainaut, active since 2012. Their blend of melodic death metal hooks with metalcore dynamics bridges two of modern extreme metal's most popular subgenres.
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