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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Portland, Oregon's Spume have played slam and brutal death metal since 2017, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's extreme metal community with dense, suffocating heaviness and bone-crushing rhythmic assault.
Las Vegas, Nevada death metal band Spun in Darkness have been active since 2010, forging a persistent presence in the Southwest extreme metal underground with straightforward, punishing death metal.
Globe, Arizona heavy metal act Spungee Goodness formed in 2020, bringing classic heavy metal sensibilities to a small Arizona city outside the state's main metropolitan metal scenes.
San Antonio, Texas stoner and sludge metal band Spunkous formed in 2023, fusing the hazy, heavy grooves of stoner metal with the abrasive weight of sludge within San Antonio's active underground scene.
Chicago, Illinois heavy metal band Spyderbone have been active since 2014, operating within the city's broad and long-standing heavy metal tradition with a direct, no-frills approach to the genre.
Meppel's Spyker blend metalcore and thrash metal from the Drenthe countryside since 2013. Named for the Dutch luxury car brand, their precision-engineering name suits tightly constructed compositions of aggressive ambition.
Detroit, Michigan black metal act Spymaster emerged in 2014, channeling the cold, aggressive energy of the black metal genre through the lens of Detroit's harsh industrial and musical landscape.
La Vergne, Tennessee heavy metal band Spyne formed in 2014, contributing to Middle Tennessee's underground metal community with a foundation in traditional heavy metal songwriting and delivery.
Petrozavodsk's Spyon have been delivering melodic power metal from the Karelian capital since 1996. Three decades from the shores of Lake Onega make them one of the longest-running power metal acts in Russia's northwest.
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