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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Halo (2017)
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Shemhamphorash practice black metal from Barcelona, drawing their name from the kabbalistic explicit name of God. Active since 2016, they bring Hebrew mysticism to the Catalan black metal underground.
Named for a fallen angel of Jewish mystical tradition, this Warrior, Alabama act works in the crushing slowness of funeral doom metal, conjuring suffocating atmosphere and grief-laden dirges since 2025.
Yardley, Pennsylvania's Shenk arrived in 2023 mixing the bone-snapping technicality of melodic death metal with the blunt force of brutal death, carving out a niche in the dense Pennsylvania underground.
Buffalo, Minnesota's Sheogorath — named for the Daedric Prince of Madness — blends thrash metal's velocity with the icy venom of black metal, creating a chaotic and unpredictable sonic identity since 2017.
A Pennsylvania death metal project drawing its name from the Hebrew underworld, Sheol has been dealing in grim, no-frills death metal since 2013, trading in dense riffs and sepulchral atmosphere.
Lincoln, Illinois' Sheol occupies the grimmer corners of the American death metal underground, crafting mid-paced, death-saturated material since 2013 in the vein of classic early-90s brutality.
Los Angeles' Shepherd brings a melodic sharpness to their thrash-infused death metal, weaving the hooky aggression of melodic death into a sound anchored by California's long history of speed and precision.
Denver's Shepherd operates in the slow and the crushing, blending doom, sludge, and post-metal into a heavy and introspective sound that mirrors Colorado's vast and brooding landscapes.
Atlanta's Shepherds ov the Veil emerged in 2023 with a raw black metal approach steeped in occult atmosphere, adding to Georgia's growing underground black metal presence with a sense of ceremonial menace.
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