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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Farmington, Missouri death metal band active since 2008, bringing uncompromising brutality to a part of the Midwest not typically associated with extreme metal.
Philadelphia doom and stoner metal trio active since 2001, known for their largely instrumental approach and the prominent role of the violin alongside guitar and drums, an unusual sonic identity within the genre.
Phoenix black metal outfit formed in 2022, drawing on the atmosphere of the desert Southwest to forge a sound rooted in the rawer, more atmospheric end of American black metal.
Stirb ("Die") deliver melodic death/thrash metal from Kehl on the French-German border, channeling aggressive extremity with a blunt, one-word German imperative for a name. Formed in 2021, they bring Rhine-spanning intensity to the Baden metal scene.
New Philadelphia, Ohio act formed in 2023 that combines death metal, grindcore, and crossover thrash into a fast and abrasive style typical of the genre's more chaotic fringe.
The Hague's Stitchfork deal in stoner metal from the Dutch seat of government since 2018. Their rural-implement name and political-capital origins create a friction between earthy heaviness and metropolitan sophistication.
Stjarnfalt blend atmospheric black metal with ambient and trance elements from the Hallstahammar/Vasteras area since 2019. Their Swedish name meaning "star field" channels the cosmic expanse of the night sky into compositions of boundary-crossing atmospheric immersion.
Stobe blend thrash, groove metal, and hardcore from Kirkkonummi near Helsinki, creating a volatile crossover from the greater Helsinki area. Active since 2013, they bring multi-genre aggression to the Uusimaa underground.
Death/thrash metal band from the East Tyrolean town of Lienz, formed in 2019. Their crossover of death and thrash metal delivers aggressive, high-velocity extremity from one of Austria's most remote alpine regions.
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