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Proof (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Splicer blend thrash metal with hard rock from Munich, combining aggressive velocity with rock's melodic accessibility. Active since 2018, they bring a genre-splicing approach to the Bavarian capital's diverse metal scene.
Spliff Witch is a doom, stoner, and sludge metal band from Anderson, South Carolina, formed in 2021, delivering hazy, heavy-riffed music steeped in the psychedelic fatigue and swamp-weight of the Southern sludge tradition.
Belfast's Spliff Witchard have been dealing low-and-slow sludge and stoner riffs since 2012. Their name says it all: hazy, heavy, and unapologetically devoted to the riff as sacrament.
Spliffripper is a doom and sludge metal band from Kalispell, Montana, formed in 2021, offering slow, crushing heaviness from the remote northern Rockies, where the isolation of the landscape matches the oppressive weight of the music.
Spline is a southern metal band from Memphis, Tennessee, formed in 2010, channeling the groove, grit, and blues-inflected aggression that has defined the Memphis underground's hard edge for decades.
Splinetic deliver groove metal from the southern Finnish town of Forssa, channeling rhythmic heaviness with the visceral intensity of their spleen-referencing name. Formed in 2021, they bring Kanta-Hame groove to the Finnish metal scene.
Splinter Flesh deal in death metal from Wurzburg, channeling the visceral imagery their name evokes through extreme compositions. Formed in 2024, they bring fresh brutality to the Franconian underground.
's-Hertogenbosch's Splinterbomb pair groove and thrash metal from the Brabant capital since 2015. Their fragmentary-explosive name channels the shrapnel effect of detonation into compositions of splintering aggression.
Glasgow's Splintered Halo pursue the unconventional, channeling avant-garde metal's boundary-pushing ethos since 2016. Their compositions reject formula in favor of experimentation, yielding unpredictable and cerebral sonic journeys.
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