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Splitwig is a brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2012, delivering the dense, guttural onslaught of US brutal death metal from the Mid-Atlantic underground over more than a decade of activity.
Novara's Splēne channel black metal with an accented spelling since 2025. Their Piedmontese origins and bile-themed name suggest compositions steeped in bitterness and raw, unprocessed negativity.
Rome's Spoiled deliver thrash metal from the Italian capital since 2022. Their name carries connotations of rot and excess, channeled into compositions of aggressive, unchecked energy.
Sliedrecht's Spoiler play heavy metal from the South Holland river town since 2015. Their name of revelations and disruption channels a subversive spirit into traditional metal from the Dutch waterways.
Providence, Rhode Island outfit Sponch traffics in abrasive sludge and doom metal, blending crushing low-end riffs with noise-inflected textures since forming in 2017.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Sponsel play a hard-driving blend of heavy, power, and speed metal, channeling the high-energy urgency of the classic American metal underground since 2017.
Slam/brutal death metal band from the Black Sea port city of Varna, active since 2013. Their explosive blend of slam's crushing breakdowns and brutal death metal's technical ferocity makes them one of the heaviest acts on Bulgaria's eastern coast.
Spontaneous Combustion is a brutal slamming death metal band from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego — one of the southernmost cities in the world — making them one of the most geographically isolated extreme metal acts in Argentina. The band released the EP Ignición, which is catalogued on Encyclopaedia Metallum and distributed through Grinder Cirujano Records.
Texas slam and brutal death metal act Spontaneous Curettage formed in 2024, delivering dense, gore-obsessed extremity rooted in the slam subgenre's tradition of pulverizing rhythms and guttural vocals.
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