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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Skraemsel deliver melodic death and black metal from the island of Zealand, combining harmonic sophistication with extreme intensity. Their Danish name, evoking fright and terror, sets the tone for their emotionally charged compositions.
Formed in Endicott, New York in 2017, Skud is a death metal band operating in the grimy upstate New York underground, delivering the straightforward, skull-cracking style the genre's traditional fans expect.
Frostburg, Maryland's Skul blend death metal's crushing riffwork with hardcore's confrontational urgency, a pairing that suits the band's origins in a small Appalachian college town where crossover between extreme music scenes is natural.
Skuld draw their name from Norse mythology and their sound from the black metal tradition, operating out of St. Gallen since 2024. Their approach to the genre channels the cold atmospheres and blast-beat fury of Scandinavian black metal through a Swiss Alpine lens.
Skulds deal in death metal from Neuruppin in Brandenburg, channeling extreme aggression from the lake-dotted landscape north of Berlin. Their Norse mythology reference adds a mythological dimension to their eastern German death metal.
Heavy metal band from Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2004, with lyrics centered on conspiracy theories and extraterrestrial themes. Their EP Ancient Aliens of Damnation (2014) was mixed and mastered by Roger Fingle at Nitro Estúdio in Caxias do Sul.
Styrian death metal veterans founded in 1990, Skull Crusher became a pillar of Austria's early extreme metal scene, touring with Napalm Death and Massacre before releasing "The Darkside of Humanity" (1996) and "Tormented" (2000). After a 20-year hiatus, the band reunited and returned with new EP material.
Chicago's Skull Decay work in the slow, cavernous territory where drone and doom intersect, using elongated song structures and severe low-end rumble to create an atmosphere of prolonged, unnerving decay since 2015.
Reno thrash act Skull Fracture have been tearing through the Nevada underground since 2021, bringing the speed, aggression, and no-frills production aesthetic that keeps classic thrash metal's underground flame burning in the high desert.
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