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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Progressive metal outfit from Linz, Austria, crafting intricate, technically demanding compositions since 2011. Their sound explores the full dynamic range of progressive metal, balancing complexity with emotional depth in the tradition of the genre's most ambitious practitioners.
Sphere Eternal is a Salt Lake City atmospheric black metal band founded in 2016, crafting expansive, cold soundscapes that reflect the stark landscape of Utah's mountain west through tremolo-driven composition and ambient texture.
The Hague's Spheres deliver death metal from the Dutch seat of government since 2022. Their geometric name and political-capital origins channel systematic precision into compositions of carefully constructed extremity.
Spheric play melodic death metal from Brunswick, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Lower Saxon sensibility. Active since 2013, they bring spherical, encompassing heaviness to the North German melodeath scene.
Spherical blend melodic death and gothic metal from the central Finnish town of Jamsankoski, combining harmonic sophistication with dark romantic themes. Formed in 2019, they bring well-rounded darkness to the Finnish extreme scene.
Spherical Obscenity is a Buffalo, New York band formed in 2017 that combines melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with traditional heavy metal structure, balancing hook-driven riffing against heavier rhythmic attack.
Spheron deal in death metal from Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, channeling extreme aggression from the Palatinate industrial city. Active since 2013, they bring brutal intensity to the Rhine-Neckar region's extreme metal landscape.
Spicehead have been delivering heavy metal from the Kaiserslautern area since 1995, making them veterans of the Rhineland-Palatinate metal scene. Their three decades of activity represent a sustained commitment to classic metal from the western Palatinate.
Spider Control Rod is a death metal band from Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, formed in 2024, adding a new and abrasive voice to the state's densely populated extreme metal underground.
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