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Lawrence, Kansas's Sarkatha arrived in 2023 with a speed/thrash/black metal hybrid that pulls the Great Plains' wide-open emptiness into genuinely ferocious music. They operate in a college town with a surprisingly deep underground tradition, channeling that energy into a sound that refuses to pick just one lane between black metal's cold fury and thrash's kinetic aggression.
Savage Grace is an American power and speed metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981 originally under the name Marquis de Sade, drawing early attention when their song 'Scepters of Deceit' appeared on Metal Blade's Metal Massacre II compilation in 1982. The band released the EP The Dominatress (1984) and their debut full-length Master of Disguise (1985), followed by After the Fall from Grace (1986), both considered significant entries in the early American speed metal canon. After a lengthy hiatus following their 1993 split, the band returned in 2023 with Sign of the Cross, the first new studio album in 37 years.
Scale of Alkan deliver power and speed metal from the Alpine resort city of Annecy, channeling the genre's velocity from the shores of Lake Annecy. Formed in 2023, they bring Savoyard power to the French speed metal scene.
Scaveng'ours deliver heavy, speed, and thrash metal from Paris, combining classic metal foundations with breakneck velocity. Active since 2016, they bring scavenging intensity to the French capital's traditional metal scene.
Schweine Eisen ("Pig Iron") forge heavy and speed metal from Parchim in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, bringing the raw energy of classic metal to one of Germany's most rural and sparsely populated regions. Their name evokes the crude, industrial material that suits their no-frills approach.
Out of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Scootergypsy has been hauling classic speed and heavy metal influence through the South since 2013 with a no-frills directness that feels ripped straight from the genre's early-80s heyday. Their music runs on twin-guitar attack and wiry, hard-rock swagger — the kind that sounds better on a back-road highway than in a concert hall. They sit comfortably in the tradition of NWOBHM-influenced American speed metal, with enough hard rock looseness to keep it from feeling purely academic.
Screaming Souls channel power and speed metal from Cologne, delivering high-velocity anthems with soaring vocal lines and galloping rhythms. Active since 2011, they carry the torch of classic European speed/power metal from the Rhineland.
Sculforge deliver speed and power metal from a Berlin-to-Stuttgart axis, combining the velocity of speed metal with power metal's anthemic grandeur. Their multi-city base reflects a band whose ambitions span the breadth of German metal geography.
Thrash/speed metal band from Liege formed in 2023, injecting fresh energy into Wallonia's metal scene with high-velocity aggression. Their sound bridges the raw speed of early thrash with the relentless attack of speed metal.
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