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Sheamata emerged from the Minsk scene with albums like "No-One But Me" and "INNONAME," exploring melodic death metal through a lens of synthetic textures and introspective songwriting. Their sound bridges aggressive guitar-driven passages with atmospheric electronic elements.
Shear deliver power metal from Helsinki, channeling the genre's anthemic energy from the Finnish capital. Active since 2008, they bring cutting power to the Finnish metal scene.
Cleveland death metal stalwarts formed in 2014, rooted in the old-school death metal tradition with a sound that favors putrid, mid-paced heaviness alongside the city's well-established extreme metal pedigree.
Black metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, formed in 1995 and built around the duo of Lucinaldo Infernal (guitar, bass) and Rufino Hellfire (vocals, drums). The band released the EP Turning the Cross in September 2020 through Gravadora Inferno, featuring instrumentals originally tracked in 2007 with vocals added in 2020.
Las Vegas deathcore outfit formed in 2020, combining the breakdown-heavy architecture of deathcore with death metal's brutality in a city better known for spectacle than underground extremity.
Saint Petersburg's Shegord deliver industrial metal from the cultural capital since 2021. Their enigmatic name and imperial-city origins channel mechanical darkness into compositions of rhythmic, machine-driven intensity.
Sheidim forge black/death metal from Barcelona, drawing their name from Hebrew demonology to fuel their extreme compositions. Active since 2015, they bring Semitic occultism to the Catalan extreme metal scene.
Sheilan have been playing heavy metal from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa since 1989, making them one of the longest-running metal acts on the African continent. Their unique geographic position between Europe and Africa gives their classic metal a truly distinctive cultural context.
A black metal act out of Russellville, Alabama, Shekinah has been forging a raw and uncompromising sound since 2010, drawing on orthodox black metal traditions with a distinctly American underground sensibility.
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