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For All To Blame (2022)
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Ripping / Pulling / Tearing (2019)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Asheville, North Carolina stoner metal outfit Squidlord have been active since 2014, fitting comfortably within Asheville's vibrant and eclectic heavy music underground with fuzz-heavy, psychedelic-tinged stoner metal.
Seattle, Washington groove metal band Squirrel Hands formed in 2021, bringing heavy mid-tempo riffing and locked-in rhythmic weight to a city with a storied history of heavy and extreme music.
Srd, originating in Murska Sobota before relocating to Ljubljana, practice black metal since 2017. Their Slovenian name meaning "anger" or "wrath" channels concentrated fury into atmospheric compositions from Slovenia's easternmost to its central capital.
Experimental ambient black metal project from Graz, active since 2018, with a prolific catalog including albums like "Des Himmels Tränen" and "Walking in the Shadows." Their atmospheric compositions blend celestial imagery with melancholic darkness, pushing black metal into introspective, ambient-influenced territory.
Intense Metalcore out of Texas.
Stavropol's SS-18 have been practicing black metal from the North Caucasus since 2003. Named for the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile, over two decades of Caucasian activity have produced compositions channeling Cold War nuclear dread.
Kharkiv's SS-20 thrash from Ukraine's second city since 2009. Named for the Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile, over a decade and a half from the eastern metropolis, their Cold War weapons reference channels nuclear-age dread into compositions of sustained aggression.
Cleveland, Ohio technical thrash metal band SSA formed in 2025, bringing precision-driven riffing and the kinetic aggression of technical thrash to a city with deep roots in heavy and extreme music.
SSR is a Houston, Texas progressive/technical power-thrash metal band formed in 2022, blending the technical complexity of progressive metal with the aggressive drive of thrash and the melodic ambition of power metal.
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