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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Utrecht's Spitting Nails bring metalcore to the Dutch cathedral city since 2015. Their name of furious, projectile-launching rage channels punk-derived intensity into breakdown-heavy compositions.
Crema's Spleen Flipper weave black, death, deathcore, melodic death, and metalcore from the Cremona countryside since 2013. Their genre-spanning approach and visceral name reflect an unwillingness to be confined by stylistic boundaries.
Meppel's Spyker blend metalcore and thrash metal from the Drenthe countryside since 2013. Named for the Dutch luxury car brand, their precision-engineering name suits tightly constructed compositions of aggressive ambition.
Intense Metalcore out of Texas.
Stab! Stab! Stab! is a metalcore band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, active since 2003, bringing an aggressive, no-frills approach to the genre shaped by the city's hardcore underground.
Stallionslaughter is a groove metal and metalcore band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, formed in 2016, blending groove metal's mid-paced riffing and swagger with the aggression and breakdowns of metalcore.
Stand Ablaze is a Pocatello, Idaho melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2021, combining the melodic harmonic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with the structural intensity of metalcore.
Stand Defiant is an Asheville, North Carolina band formed in 2019, blending the raw aggression of crossover thrash with metalcore's structural intensity and the speed and riff density of traditional thrash.
Belfast's Stand-Up Guy navigate the bruising intersection of metalcore and sludge metal. Active since 2012, their sound carries the confrontational energy of hardcore alongside the oppressive weight of sludge.
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