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Shaman Ritual practice black metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling shamanic spiritual traditions through extreme compositions. Active since 2017, they bring Finnish folk mysticism to the central Finnish black metal scene.
Shamane practice black metal from the Black Forest town of Zell im Wiesental, channeling occult themes from one of Germany's most mythologically rich landscapes. Active since 2009, they draw on the region's deep folklore traditions.
Goregrind band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, whose name is taken from the Shamatari tribe depicted in the 1979 film Cannibal Holocaust. The band released a self-titled CDr demo in 2008, produced by Leonardo Chagas and distributed through Terceiro Mundo Chaos, Cauterized Productions, and Vampiria Records; the track Pútridos Corpos Canibais from that demo was included in filmmaker Petter Baiestorf's 2008 film Vadias do Sexo Sangrento.
Siversky's Shamayna merge doom, sludge, and stoner metal from the Leningrad Oblast village since 2021. Their shamanic name and rural origins near Saint Petersburg channel spiritual healing rituals into compositions of multi-layered heaviness.
Atmospheric folk death/black metal project from Blagoevgrad, active since 2003, built around an elaborate fantasy concept depicting an ancient Elven world called "The Wet Lands," with all songs performed in the constructed Elfish language "Tura Ieagan." Their deeply immersive world-building approach sets them apart as one of Bulgaria's most unique extreme metal projects.
Oklahoma City's Shame in Nothing arrived in 2025 playing heavy and thrash metal that reflects the mid-South's no-nonsense approach to aggressive music — direct, riff-forward, and built for the live stage rather than studio artifice. As one of the scene's newest entries, they carry on a thrash tradition that has long simmered beneath Oklahoma's heavier underground.
Shamed deliver melodic death metal from the small North Savo town of Kiuruvesi, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with rural Finnish intensity. Active since 2016, they bring heartland aggression to the Finnish melodeath landscape.
Pyatigorsk's Shammash practice raw black metal from the North Caucasus spa city since 2014. Named for the Mesopotamian sun god, their mineral-springs origins channel ancient solar worship into lo-fi compositions.
Stoner/doom band from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, formed in 2024. The five-piece lineup — JP Vieira on vocals, Arthur Biscotto and Daniel Hochwart on guitars, Iggor Concolatto on bass, and Lucas de Lucca on drums — recorded their self-titled Demo live at Rise Together Studio in May 2024, releasing it in August of that year.
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