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For All To Blame (2022)
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Ripping / Pulling / Tearing (2019)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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San Antonio, Texas melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2016, Start a War fuses the melodic aggression of Swedish death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
New Haven, Connecticut doom/sludge/black metal band formed in 2024, Starvation combines the dragging heaviness of sludge, the bleakness of black metal, and the oppressive weight of doom into a suffocating sonic whole.
San Jose, California black/death metal band formed in 2022, Starve the Leech blends the tremolo aggression of black metal with the heaviness and technique of death metal.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, Starved delivers the crossover intensity of thrash with the heaviness and grim delivery of death metal in the American Midwest underground tradition.
Atlanta, Georgia death metal and deathcore band formed in 2024, Starved of Light combines the brutal riffing and technical heaviness of death metal with the structural breakdown elements of deathcore.
Saint Petersburg's Starvelum pair symphonic and power metal from the cultural capital since 2014. Their star-veil name channels the gossamer fabric between observer and cosmos into orchestral compositions of celestial ambition.
Kharkiv's Starving Souls deliver melodic death metal from the war-affected eastern Ukrainian city since 2012. Over a decade from the embattled metropolis, their famished-spirit name has channeled the hunger of deprived consciousness into compositions of melodic intensity.
Greeley, Colorado symphonic melodic death metal band formed in 2019, Starwraith layers orchestral arrangements and cinematic keyboard textures over melodic death metal riffing and aggressive rhythmic attack.
Fayetteville, Arkansas sludge/doom metal band formed in 2024, Stash Hag deal in slow, corrosive heaviness rooted in the Southern sludge tradition with a crushing low-end focus.
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