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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Sions Funeral deliver melodic death metal from Neheim in the Sauerland, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Westphalian character. Active since 2012, they bring emotional intensity and harmonic sophistication to the North Rhine-Westphalia extreme scene.
Sipher craft gothic, alternative, and industrial metal from Helsinki, blending multiple dark music traditions into a versatile heavy sound. Active since 2015, they bring encoded darkness to the Finnish capital's alternative metal scene.
Phoenix, Arizona's Siphon have operated since 2004 at the intersection of thrash, groove metal, and hardcore, building a aggressive, crossover-inflected sound shaped by the desert Southwest's abrasive heavy music underground.
Dallas, Texas's Siphoned Life emerged in 2022 playing progressive death metal, joining a city with a strong technical metal tradition and bringing compositional complexity and shifting dynamics to their brand of extreme heaviness.
Fairfax, California's Siphoner is a young black metal project formed in 2024, working in the Bay Area's fertile underground scene and drawing on the raw, unadorned traditions of atmospheric and orthodox black metal.
A California atmospheric black/death metal act active since 2015, Sire melds the sweeping, post-influenced atmospherics of atmospheric black metal with the crushing brutality of death metal, crafting dense and layered sonic environments.
New York's Sire Languish is one of the newest acts in this index, formed in 2025, pushing experimental black and death metal into unconventional territory with an approach that resists genre rigidity from the outset.
Siren channel black metal from Bergisch Gladbach in the Rhineland, their mythological name evoking the dangerous allure of their dark compositions. Active since 2018, they add to the rich tapestry of North Rhine-Westphalia's black metal underground.
Los Angeles, California's Sirenhex play traditional heavy metal forged in the city's sprawling underground scene since 2018, channeling the genre's foundational energy into material that owes a clear debt to classic metal's twin virtues of hooks and power.
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