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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Suckerpunch is a thrash metal band from Bourbonnais, Illinois, formed in 2019, delivering hard rock-inflected thrash with a blue-collar Midwest energy rooted in the small-town underground.
Suckerpunched is a heavy/thrash metal band from Galesburg, Illinois, formed in 2011, mixing classic heavy metal and punk-influenced thrash into a raw, no-frills assault from the Illinois underground.
Sudden Darkness are thrash metal veterans dating back to 1988, making them one of Switzerland's longest-running thrash acts. Their decades of activity have kept the flame of old-school Swiss thrash metal burning through multiple generations of the scene.
Sudden Death is a groove/thrash metal band from Sarasota, Florida, formed in 1992, carrying over three decades of experience in the Florida underground with a heavy, mid-paced attack rooted in the groove metal era.
Sudden Havoc craft progressive death/thrash metal from the Baltic port of Rostock, building technically demanding compositions since 2005. Their two decades of activity make them veterans of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern extreme metal scene.
Sudden Loss is an Oakland, California band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlap between crossover thrash, death metal, and hardcore, combining Bay Area aggression with a menacing death metal edge.
Sudden Strength is a Los Angeles thrash/hardcore band formed in 2021, drawing equally from the velocity and riffing of thrash metal and the raw intensity of hardcore punk in the tradition of the LA crossover scene.
Suffer is a Los Angeles band formed in 1993 that combines thrash and groove metal with hardcore influences, reflecting the hard-edged street energy of the Southern California metal underground across more than three decades of activity.
Suffer No Fools is a crossover thrash/hardcore band from Houghton, Michigan, formed in 2022, bringing aggressive, high-energy thrash and hardcore to Michigan's Upper Peninsula underground.
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