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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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New York black metal act formed in 2024, this Starvation project channels raw, stripped-down black metal hostility with an uncompromising underground sensibility.
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.
State Champs formed in Albany, New York in 2010 and became one of the central bands in the 2010s pop-punk revival. Early demos and the 2011 release Apparently, I'm Nothing led into the Pure Noise era, where Overslept and The Finer Things defined their sound: fast, cleanly produced guitars, tightly stacked backing vocals, and Derek DiScanio's bright, elastic lead melodies. Around the World and Back gave the band a larger, more polished profile while keeping the punchy rhythms and emotionally direct writing that had made their debut connect. Living Proof, Kings of the New Age, and the self-titled State Champs continued to refine a sound built for both club sing-alongs and bigger rock rooms. The band's history is less about dramatic reinvention than consistency and craft. They write with the speed and uplift of classic pop punk, but their recordings emphasize modern clarity, vocal precision, and choruses that turn romantic tension, uncertainty, and resilience into compact, high-energy songs. Their polish works because the rhythm section still moves like a punk band.
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