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Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Joinville, Santa Catarina, active from 2014 until splitting up. They released the four-track EP Beyond Human Existence in April 2014, their only documented release.
Stockholm-based Self Deception have been delivering their explosive fusion of anthemic modern metal and powerful melodic rock since founders Andreas Clark and Erik Eklund formed the band in 2005. Their viral 2022 hit 'Fight Fire With Gasoline' propelled them to millions of streams, and a deal with Napalm Records for their upcoming album 'One Of Us' marks a major milestone. Sharing stages with Electric Callboy, Danko Jones, and Adept, Self Deception's high-impact live shows have cemented their reputation as one of Sweden's most exciting rock acts.
Death/doom metal band from Sofia, active since 2022, whose name encapsulates the fatalistic atmosphere of their music. Their fusion of death metal aggression with doom's crushing tempos creates a sound steeped in existential dread.
Self Exploited Whore deal in death metal and grindcore from the Burgundy village of Varzy, channeling extreme aggression from rural France. Formed in 2023, they bring provocatively named brutality to the Nievre countryside.
Formed in 2016 in Enid, Oklahoma, Self Inflicted drag the Southern metal tradition through the murk of sludge and doom, delivering slow-motion riffs drenched in feedback and regional grit. Their sound carries the weight of the Great Plains — unhurried, oppressive, and built low to the ground. Equal parts stoner haze and Southern hostility, they're a fitting product of Oklahoma's hard-edged underground.
This Gaithersburg, Maryland act formed in 2016 and approaches heavy metal from a thrash-rooted angle, combining the punch of classic American thrash with the no-nonsense directness of traditional heavy metal. Their sound favors aggressive riffing and straightforward song structures over technical complexity, placing them squarely in the lineage of East Coast hard metal acts. Active and still developing, they represent a blue-collar strain of metal that owes more to the road than the studio.
A relatively new project out of Worcester, Massachusetts, Self Inflicted Gunshot Wounds formed in 2021 and traffic in a raw, uncompromising hybrid of black and death metal that leans heavily on ugliness as an aesthetic virtue. Worcester has a long history of producing abrasive, extreme music, and this project fits that lineage well — dissonant, violent in tone, and deliberately difficult. Their Bandcamp presence suggests a lo-fi approach that favors atmosphere over polish.
Self Inflikted deliver melodic death metal from Toulouse, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with the warmth of the Occitanie capital. Active since 2013, they bring self-inflicted intensity to the southwestern French scene.
Akron's Self Loathing formed in 2018 and operate at the volatile intersection of death metal and hardcore punk, bringing the blunt-force aggression of the latter to the low-end brutality of the former. The band's crossover approach is rooted in the Rust Belt tradition of music that doesn't ask permission — short, crushing, and direct. They're part of a small but committed Ohio underground scene that treats genre boundaries as obstacles to be demolished.
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