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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Kirov's Shiftdown merge death, sludge, and technical death metal from the Vyatka region since 2017. Their gear-reduction name channels deceleration into compositions of multi-genre complexity from eastern Russia.
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina's Shifting Tides works in the heavy and the expansive — combining progressive and post-metal spaciousness with sludge's visceral weight, creating a coastal heaviness both slow-burning and immersive.
Yekaterinburg's Shigir craft atmospheric black metal from the Ural capital since 2024. Named for the ancient Shigir Idol, the world's oldest wooden sculpture, they channel 11,000 years of heritage into atmospheric compositions.
Shigrath channel raw black metal from Cologne, embracing the lo-fi, unpolished aesthetic that defines the rawer end of the genre. Active since 2017, they bring a deliberately primitive sound to the Rhineland underground.
Shih Tzu deal in goregrind and cybergrind from the German underground, combining the absurd humor of their toy-dog name with the harsh, digitally enhanced extremity of their genres. Their output blends goregrind's grotesque aesthetics with cybergrind's electronic chaos.
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Groove metal band from Belém, Pará, formed in 2019. The band released the single Suicidal on September 13, 2018, recorded at Legacy Studios in Belém.
Tampa's Shimera brings a groove-heavy approach to heavy metal, leaning into the mid-paced churn and rhythmic swagger of groove metal within a city known for producing acts that favor intensity over flash.
Shimetsu deliver death metal and grindcore from Trier, Germany's oldest city, combining ancient Roman-founded heritage with some of extreme music's most modern and aggressive forms. Active since 2014, they bring blasting intensity to the Moselle Valley.
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