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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Skator deliver thrash metal from Zaragoza, channeling aggressive velocity from the Aragonese capital. Active since 2013, they bring skating-speed intensity to the Ebro Valley thrash scene.
Skela evolved from thrash metal into groove metal from Paterna near Valencia, broadening their rhythmic palette while maintaining aggressive foundations. Formed in 2024, they bring evolving heaviness to the Valencian scene.
Skeletal Incineration is a San Diego, California death/black/thrash metal band formed in 2004, forging a destructive hybrid of the three styles that leans into the darkest corners of each — the speed of thrash, the malevolence of black metal, and the low-end grotesquerie of death metal. San Diego has historically been fertile ground for this kind of cross-genre extreme metal brutality.
Skeletal Prison is a death/thrash metal band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 2021, channeling the aggression of late-80s Teutonic thrash and early Florida death metal into a sound that is punishing, riff-forward, and uncompromising. Rockford's rust-belt grit is a fitting backdrop for this kind of stripped-down, mechanical heaviness.
Skeletal Remains (CT) is a Deep River, Connecticut death/thrash metal band also formed in 2011, occupying a distinctly different space from their California namesake — they play a harder-edged, thrash-inflected form of death metal with a New England underground roughness. The Connecticut scene has historically flown under the radar, and this band reflects that independent, unsung character.
Skeleton Proof Tanks is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Ridley, Pennsylvania, formed in 2021, blending the melodic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition with the raw kinetic energy of American thrash. Their name alone signals an irreverent streak that sits alongside otherwise earnest extreme metal aspirations.
Originally from Ohio, now Austin-based. Blackened thrash perfection.
Operating out of Juneau, Alaska since 2000, Skeletor blends the twin-guitar punch of power metal with the relentless attack of thrash, an unlikely combination born in one of America's most isolated state capitals.
Fairbanks, Alaska's Skellum has been delivering hard-hitting thrash since 2012, a testament to the tenacity of metal communities thriving in one of the continent's most remote and severe climates.
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