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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Split Lung is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2015, specializing in heavy, slow-burning riffs and oppressive atmosphere within the Central Valley's underground heavy music scene.
Odesa's Split Personality explore progressive metal from the Black Sea port since 2011. Over a decade from the Pearl of the Black Sea, their dissociative-identity name has channeled the fragmentation of the self into compositions of technical ambition.
Split Point is a groove, thrash, and heavy metal band from New Jersey, formed in 2017, blending the syncopated punch of groove metal with the intensity of thrash in a hard-hitting style rooted in the Garden State's metal underground.
Split the Abyss is a death and thrash metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2014, combining the aggression of old-school death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash in the tradition of the Midwest extreme underground.
SplitImage is a heavy metal band from Modesto, California, formed in 2019, playing traditional heavy metal in the Central Valley's underground scene.
Splitkick combine death metal with hardcore punk from Halle an der Saale, fusing extreme metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational energy. Formed in 2023, they bring crossover intensity to the Saxony-Anhalt scene.
SplitSick is a brutal death metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2019, delivering dense, low-tuned brutality from one of the Bay Area's more extreme metal acts.
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Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
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