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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Snuff45 have been practicing black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 1996. Three decades of activity under their provocative, violence-referencing name make them one of Russia's longest-running anonymous black metal projects.
San Francisco band founded in 2020 that fuses brutal death metal with hardcore aggression, channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of punishing crossover extremity.
Detroit doom/death metal project formed in 2025, pairing the Motor City's industrialized heaviness with the slow, sepulchral weight of the doom-death tradition.
Traditional heavy metal band from Castro Valley, California, active since 2014, drawing on classic NWOBHM and American power metal influences with a straightforward, riff-forward approach.
Snaekes deal in death metal from Copenhagen, their deliberately archaic spelling adding a serpentine quality to their Danish capital brutality. Formed in 2024, they bring venomous intensity to the Scandinavian death metal scene.
Snaer is a black metal project from Pittsfield, Maine, formed in 2017, whose name — Old Norse for "snow" — reflects the project's affinity for cold, atmospheric extremity rooted in the bleak landscapes of the rural Northeast.
Velenje's Snogg practice black metal from the coal-mining city since 2014. Their Old Norse name meaning "quick" or "sharp" and origins in Slovenia's energy-producing heartland channel swift darkness into over a decade of atmospheric compositions.
Snet practice death metal from Prague, delivering grim, heavy compositions from the heart of the Czech capital's extreme metal underground. Formed in 2019, they represent the ongoing vitality of Prague's death metal scene.
Silver Spring death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, combining the intensity of old-school thrash with the brutality of death metal in the tradition of the mid-Atlantic underground.
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