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Stormwitch are a legendary German heavy/power metal band from Gerstetten in the Swabian Alps, part of the same 1980s generation that produced Accept, Helloween, and Running Wild. Their four-decade career has made them icons of the Teutonic heavy metal tradition.
Stormwrath deliver thrash metal from Valencia, channeling wrathful storms through aggressive compositions from the Mediterranean coast. Active since 2009, they bring tempestuous intensity to the Valencian thrash scene.
Stortregn have built an impressive catalog of technical melodic black/death metal from Geneva since 2005, with albums like "Finitude" and "Impermanence" demonstrating their evolution from Nordic-influenced black metal into a more distinctive technical style. Their charging riffs and blast beats are balanced by genuine compositional sophistication, earning them recognition as one of Switzerland's premier extreme metal exports.
Story of the Eye is a blackened sludge/doom metal band from Fayetteville, Arkansas, formed in 2019, named after the transgressive Georges Bataille novella and combining the suffocating weight of sludge with black metal's darkness and malice.
St. Louis' Story of the Year became a Warped Tour mainstay with their 2003 debut 'Page Avenue,' which delivered infectious pop-punk hooks wrapped in post-hardcore energy and explosive live performances. Dan Marsala's passionate vocal delivery on singles like 'Until the Day I Die' and 'Anthem of Our Dying Day' made the band a defining act of the mid-2000s alternative rock boom.
Stosstruppen is a raw black metal band from Sacramento, California, formed in 2022, practicing an unpolished, lo-fi approach to black metal rooted in the most primitive and corrosive end of the genre.
Stoven is a stoner/doom metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2017, delivering slow-burning, fuzz-heavy material that draws equally from psychedelic rock and the crushing weight of doom.
Stovepipe is a stoner metal band from Asheville, North Carolina, formed in 2015, channeling the heavy, blues-inflected psychedelia of the Appalachian stoner scene into dense, groove-driven material.
Stovokor is a death metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2004, known for their distinctive Klingon-warrior concept and delivering bludgeoning death metal in the old-school tradition.
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