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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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Long Island, New York's Show No Mercy play Bay Area-influenced thrash metal with a regional East Coast edge, formed in 2011 and committed to the speed, aggression, and riff-forward attack that defined the genre's golden era.
Baltimore, Maryland's Show No Mercy fuse crossover and thrash metal into a ferocious, punk-inflected assault formed in 2011 — the band channels the genre's most confrontational traditions, built for the pit and powered by intensity above all.
Amherst, Massachusetts's Showhorses blend post-black metal atmosphere with stoner metal's riff-heavy warmth, creating a hazy and unsettling sound that sidesteps easy categorization since their 2016 formation.
San Francisco's Shrakys, formed in 2021, bring a Bay Area pedigree to a hybrid of heavy and thrash metal — sharp riffing, speed, and a no-nonsense approach that draws on the city's long history of thrash aggression.
Missoula, Montana's Shramana have crafted a singular hybrid since 2012, weaving black metal darkness, post-metal expansiveness, and crust punk's raw political energy into something distinctly rooted in the isolation of the Mountain West.
Los Angeles's Shrapnel, formed in 2021, deliver heavy and thrash metal shaped by the city's sprawling extreme metal community, prioritizing riff density and forward momentum in a style that echoes the early-80s heavy thrash underground.
Austin-based Shrapnel play melodic thrash and heavy metal with a classic sensibility — the band emphasizes tight melodic construction and speed, drawing from the genre's golden era while operating out of one of Texas's most active heavy music cities.
Blasphemous Black Metal from Texas / New Mexico.
Brooklyn's Shredded, formed in 2018, deliver New York death metal with the borough's characteristic bluntness — direct, punishing, and rooted in the old-school death tradition that New York City's underground has nurtured for decades.
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