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Silence Equals Death play thrash and groove metal from the Barcelona suburbs of Rubi and Sant Cugat del Valles, combining aggressive velocity with rhythmic power. Active since 2011, their name channels political urgency through heavy metal.
Flemington, New Jersey's Silence in the Grey have been crafting slow, heavy doom metal since 2013, building on the genre's foundational principles of weight, atmosphere, and an unyielding sense of dread.
Charlotte's Silence Is My Canvas approach progressive metal through a neoclassical lens, pairing technically demanding guitar shredding with compositional sophistication drawn from classical music traditions since 2017.
Thrash/hardcore band from Vitória, Espírito Santo, formed in 1997, with Alexandre (Lemmy) on guitar and Giordano (Dodão) on drums among the core contributors. The band released a self-titled demo in 2001 and has remained active through multiple lineup changes over more than two decades.
Silence of the Abyss brings progressive death/groove metal from Bastia, the principal city of northern Corsica, active since 2018. Operating from this Mediterranean island gives their heavy sound an uncommon geographic origin within European extreme metal.
Moab, Utah's Silence of the Mortuary bring death metal to one of the more geographically remote corners of the American underground, delivering the genre's morbid imagery and guttural aggression since 2017.
One-man cinematic folk black metal project from Leuven, launched in 2024, whose releases "Towards the Chimaera" and "Where Our Coils Collide" blend atmospheric black metal with folk instrumentation and cinematic grandeur. The project's name references sacred groves of Celtic religion, reflecting a deep engagement with pagan mythology.
Cleveland's Silence the Desolated began with noise and ambient experimentation before moving into black metal, a trajectory that informs a sound where atmosphere and abrasion coexist in equal measure since 2025.
Portland, Oregon doom metal act Silence the Father draw from the city's rich history of heavy, atmospheric music, channeling slow tempos and grief-laden atmosphere into their brand of traditional doom since 2014.
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