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Death metal and grindcore band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, active from 2011 until splitting up in 2019. The band released a series of self-produced recordings including the demo Fallout (2011), Songs Thou Shall Worship (2012), Fonograms of Terror and Violence (2012), Natura Humana Abraxas – First Movement (2013), and We Are the Plague (2015), documenting a run of anti-human hardcore punk-inflected extreme metal.
Shade of Sorrow craft melodic death metal from the Finnish underground, channeling grief-stricken melodies through extreme compositions. Formed in 2024, they bring shadow-dwelling sorrow to the Finnish melodeath landscape.
Shadecrown deliver melodic death/doom metal from the central Finnish town of Viitasaari, combining Scandinavian melodeath with the crushing weight of doom. Active since 2013, they bring lakeland melancholy to the Finnish extreme scene.
Seattle melodic death metal band Shaded Enmity have been active since 2004, accumulating two decades in the Pacific Northwest metal underground with a sound that draws from the Gothenburg tradition while incorporating the technical and heaviness priorities of American death metal. Longevity in that scene is its own credential.
Falun's Shades play heavy metal from the Dalarna capital since 2015. Their shadows-plural name and copper-mining heritage origins channel the darkness of underground tunnels into traditional metal compositions.
Richmond, Virginia death metal act Shades Below emerged from one of the East Coast's most historically rich heavy music environments in 2013, playing dense and punishing material that owes a debt to the city's legacy of extreme and sludge-adjacent sounds. Their approach is deliberate and crushing, built for maximum impact.
Shades of Deep Water have been crafting funeral doom metal from Jyvaskyla since 2007, building glacially paced compositions that evoke the depths of Finland's countless lakes. Their nearly two decades of aquatic doom represent one of the scene's more evocative projects.
Shades of Extinction practice black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2023. Their name of varied dying-out channels the multiple colors of annihilation into compositions of anonymous atmospheric darkness.
Shades of God combine death, thrash, and stoner metal from Munich, drawing their name from a Paradise Lost album and channeling a similar eclecticism. Their triple-genre Bavarian approach refuses to settle into any single mode of heaviness.
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