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Yaroslavl's Santerno explore progressive metal from the ancient Golden Ring city since 2009. Over fifteen years from one of Russia's most historically significant cities, they have built a catalog of technically sophisticated compositions.
Santtu Niemela creates power and progressive metal from the southwestern Finnish towns of Marttila and Loimaa, building ambitious compositions as a solo project. Formed in 2023, his work brings personal prog-power vision to the Varsinais-Suomi region.
Sapiska craft progressive metal from Helsinki, building intricate compositions from the Finnish capital. Active since 2012, they bring cerebral ambition to the Helsinki progressive scene.
Sarah Longfield is a progressive metal guitarist and composer born in 1992 in Wisconsin, who began releasing solo material in 2011 and was named one of Guitar World's fifteen greatest 7- and 8-string guitarists in the world. She founded the Madison, Wisconsin-based band The Fine Constant in 2012, releasing the albums Myriad (2012) and Woven in Light (2015), before pursuing her solo career with increasing ambition. Her album Disparity (2018), released through Season of Mist, and the subsequent solo releases SUM (2019) and Dusk (2020) cemented her reputation as a technically sophisticated composer working in progressive and instrumental metal.
Sargassus craft progressive post-metal from Tampere, building expansive compositions inspired by the seaweed-choked Sargasso Sea. Formed in 2020, they bring oceanic depth and progressive ambition to the Finnish post-metal scene.
Filthy Progressive Black Metal out of Texas.
Formed in Salzburg in 1990, Scaffold played progressive thrash/heavy metal in the technical vein, drawing comparisons to acts like Toxik and Osiris, and released a demo titled "Your Chance Is Black" in 1991. They represent the progressive end of Austria's early-1990s thrash underground, blending full-fledged prog arrangements with thrashing aggression before disbanding.
Scalding Coffee Cup craft progressive and melodic death metal from the Alpine city of Grenoble, their everyday-life name adding absurdist contrast to their technical compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring caffeinated intensity to the Dauphine scene.
From North Andover, Massachusetts, Scanning Antarctica have been building progressive and power metal compositions since 2014 — melodic, technically ambitious music that favors intricate arrangements and soaring clean vocals over the heavier extremes of the genre. Their location in the New England metal underground lends them a certain craftsman's quality, precise and deliberate in both construction and execution.
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