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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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San Francisco's Shotgun Facelift take the experimental and technical end of deathcore into genuinely unpredictable territory, founded in 2020 and building a sound that treats the genre's heaviness as raw material for something far more dissonant and architecturally unusual.
Shotgun Logic fires off thrash metal from Lyon, France's gastronomic capital turned metal hotbed, active since 2018. Their riff-driven attack channels the Bay Area thrash tradition through a distinctly modern European lens.
Morgantown, West Virginia's Shotgun Surgeon deal in a punishing blend of death metal and deathcore, combining brutal low-end heaviness with the structural savagery that has defined the region's underground extreme scene since their 2014 formation.
Kalamazoo, Michigan's Shoto navigate the bleak terrain between experimental sludge and doom, crafting slow, oppressive soundscapes that push beyond genre convention into genuinely unsettling sonic territory since forming in 2019.
Shots of Blessing is a Guatemalan metalcore band formed in 2010, with Metal Archives placing their formation a decade before the listed 2012 date. Their recorded output includes the 2022 demo The First Breath and the single Delilah, both released independently. The band remains active on the Guatemalan underground scene as an unsigned act.
Virginia-based solo black metal project Shoushitsu, formed in 2020, channels cold and uncompromising atmospheres through a raw, minimalist approach rooted in the harshest traditions of the genre.
Shovel dig through sludge and doom metal from Berlin, their workman-like name perfectly suiting the heavy, grinding labor of their music. Formed in 2019, they channel the raw, earthy heaviness that defines the genre.
Phoenix, Arizona's Shovel Monster arrived in 2022 delivering groove metal built for the desert Southwest — locked-in riffs, stomping rhythms, and a no-frills heaviness that owes as much to blue-collar grit as it does to the genre's peak-era swagger.
Florida-based metalcore act Shovelhead have been grinding since 2013, delivering the aggressive riff-and-breakdown formula of the genre with a regional hardness that reflects the state's densely competitive heavy music circuit.
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