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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Spalter play thrash metal from Hamburg, delivering the splitting intensity their German name ("Splitter") promises. Active since 2011, they've been a consistent force in the Hanseatic city's thrash scene.
Spancer have been channeling sludge and doom metal from Brunswick since 2001, making them one of Lower Saxony's longest-running sludge/doom acts. Their quarter-century of activity represents a sustained commitment to crushing, slow-motion heaviness.
Spanghew is a sludge metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2025. A newly emerged outfit in one of the country's most storied heavy music cities, they carry on the Pacific Northwest tradition of punishing, low-and-slow sludge metal.
Spania channel pagan black metal from Barcelona, drawing on pre-Christian Iberian traditions to fuel their extreme compositions. Formed in 2023, they bring Hispano-pagan intensity to the Catalan black metal scene.
Ennis' Spare deliver thrash metal from County Clare with no-frills efficiency since 2013. Their appropriately minimal name signals an approach that strips the genre down to its most essential, hard-hitting components.
Spare Change is a crossover thrash band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2015. They operate squarely in the tradition where thrash metal collides with hardcore punk, delivering the fast, irreverent, and abrasive energy that has defined the crossover genre since the 1980s.
Yalta's Sparrow Mutant pair death metal and grindcore from the Crimean resort city since 2017. Their genetically altered bird name and Black Sea coastal origins channel the grotesquerie of avian mutation into compositions of compact extremity.
Sparrowmilk is a doom and sludge metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2017, trafficking in the city's tradition of slow, oppressive heaviness with droning riffs and suffocating atmosphere.
Dallas, Texas outfit Sparrows began in 2011 with a foundation in melodic death metal and metalcore before evolving toward a heavier blackened death metal sound, reflecting the broader evolution of the Dallas extreme metal scene.
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