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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Raleigh, North Carolina's Squatch have fused thrash and sludge metal since 2010, combining the aggression of thrash with the punishing, slow-grinding heaviness of sludge to form a distinctly caustic sound.
California death metal band Squelch formed in 2024, operating within the state's vast and varied extreme metal tradition with a focus on straightforward, unadorned death metal brutality.
Fort Wayne, Indiana brutal death metal act Squelching formed in 2020, bringing the genre's signature hyper-compressed heaviness and guttural extremity to a city with a small but dedicated extreme metal following.
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
Watertown, Wisconsin groove metal band Squidhammer formed in 2022, channeling the heavy mid-tempo punch and locking rhythms of groove metal from a small city in the Wisconsin underground.
Asheville, North Carolina stoner metal outfit Squidlord have been active since 2014, fitting comfortably within Asheville's vibrant and eclectic heavy music underground with fuzz-heavy, psychedelic-tinged stoner metal.
Seattle, Washington groove metal band Squirrel Hands formed in 2021, bringing heavy mid-tempo riffing and locked-in rhythmic weight to a city with a storied history of heavy and extreme music.
Srd, originating in Murska Sobota before relocating to Ljubljana, practice black metal since 2017. Their Slovenian name meaning "anger" or "wrath" channels concentrated fury into atmospheric compositions from Slovenia's easternmost to its central capital.
Experimental ambient black metal project from Graz, active since 2018, with a prolific catalog including albums like "Des Himmels Tränen" and "Walking in the Shadows." Their atmospheric compositions blend celestial imagery with melancholic darkness, pushing black metal into introspective, ambient-influenced territory.
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