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"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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Screaming Skull combine thrash and doom metal from Nuremberg, blending high-speed aggression with crushing, deliberate heaviness. Their Franconian output navigates the extremes of tempo and weight within their dual-genre approach.
Scriptura deal in thrash and death metal from St. Erhard, combining rapid-fire riffing with death metal's low-end brutality. Their name suggests a thematic engagement with scripture and doctrine, filtered through extreme metal's confrontational lens.
Scrotum thrash from the northern French city of Douai, channeling old-school aggression with the anatomical bluntness of their name. Active since 2017, they bring provocative thrash to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais scene.
Sculptor Void play thrash metal from Arnsberg in the Sauerland region, channeling aggressive velocity from the forested hills of southern Westphalia. Their name evokes the creative destruction at the heart of their thrash metal approach.
Scum blast through black, death, and thrash metal from Nausis, combining three of extreme metal's most aggressive strains into a single, unrelenting force. Active since 2010, they refuse to be pigeonholed into any single subgenre.
Ferocious Thrash Metal / Crossover from Dallas (early)/Austin (later).
Scumblack was a death/thrash metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, active from 2016 until their split-up in 2019. They independently recorded their debut album Ceocracy between January and March 2016 at La nave de Oseberg studio in Buenos Aires, releasing it digitally in mid-2016.
Scumripper blast through black, thrash, and death metal from Lappeenranta near the Russian border, channeling multi-genre extremity from southeastern Finland. Active since 2015, they bring border-region ferocity to the Finnish underground.
Viennese thrash/power metal outfit founded in 2007, Scumshot earned recognition as finalists in Metalchamp 2011 and have shared stages with Sodom, Blaze Bayley, and Helstar. Self-dubbed "The New Wave of Austrian Metal," the band delivers aggressive riffing rooted in classic thrash with power metal energy.
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