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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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Spontaner Freitod ("Spontaneous Suicide") channel black metal from the German underground, exploring the genre's most nihilistic and despairing themes. Active since 2015, their confrontational name reflects the emotional extremity of their music.
Groningen's Spooken craft doom metal with a Dutch name meaning "ghosts" since 2015. Their spectral name and northern Dutch origins channel the eeriness of the Groningen wetlands into haunting, ponderous compositions.
Spoonfull of Life deliver melodic heavy metal from Seligenstadt in Hesse since 2001, their unexpectedly optimistic name contrasting with the genre's typically dark imagery. Their quarter-century of activity makes them veterans of the greater Frankfurt metal scene.
Madison, Wisconsin's Sporadic Impulse emerged in 2024 playing slam and brutal death metal, adding another voice to the Midwest's growing extreme metal underground with gut-wrenching heaviness and percussive brutality.
Boise, Idaho's Spore play slam and brutal death metal, emerging in 2019 with a focus on the suffocating grooves and visceral extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Derbyshire's Spore operate in the oppressive depths of doom and drone metal, creating glacially slow, monolithic soundscapes since 2019. Their music prioritizes texture and weight over melody or velocity.
Atlanta, Georgia stoner metal outfit Spore Lord have been cultivating heavy, fuzz-laden riffs since 2016, drawing from the psychedelic and doom-adjacent traditions of Southern stoner rock and metal.
Los Angeles progressive death metal and deathcore act Sporemacide formed in 2025, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness of death metal and deathcore.
Sporulation channel melodic black metal from Madrid, drawing their biological name (referring to spore formation) from the natural world. Formed in 2020, they bring organic, spore-spreading darkness to the Spanish capital's black metal scene.
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