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Shiny Daggers deliver speed and black metal from the Danish underground, combining the velocity of speed metal with black metal's dark atmospheres. Formed in 2021, their paradoxically bright name contrasts with their extreme approach.
Boston's Shipwreck A.D. has been tearing through the intersection of hardcore, thrash, and crossover since 2006, earning a reputation as a ferocious live act whose sound carries both the muscle of thrash and the aggression of the city's hardcore lineage.
Los Angeles' Shire plays melodic heavy metal with a hard rock sensibility, bringing a classically-minded approach to hook-driven riffing and clean vocal power to the sprawling Southern California metal scene since 2013.
St. Louis' Shire operates in the harsher territory of black metal, carving out cold and aggressive material from Missouri's underground since 2013 with a rawness that keeps the genre's underground spirit intact.
New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.
Mechanicsville, Maryland's Shit deals in death-laced grindcore with zero pretense, trading in short, furious blasts of extreme noise that sit comfortably in the American underground's most uncompromising corners since 2016.
Shit Hexis forge blackened sludge and doom metal from Saarbrucken, combining the malevolent atmospheres of black metal with sludge/doom's crushing, slow-motion heaviness. Formed in 2022, they bring toxic, hexed energy to the Saarland scene.
Shit Infested Roach Human Carcass practice grind 'n' roll from Nachod with the kind of gleefully repulsive aesthetic that their name suggests. Formed in 2024, they channel the absurdist, shock-value tradition of grindcore into short, nasty bursts of noise.
Detroit's Shit Life plays grindcore with the working-class fury and industrial-city grime that the genre demands, adding another raw and punishing voice to Motor City's long tradition of extreme underground music since 2017.
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