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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Salt Lake City's Swarmer blends post-metal, sludge, and stoner metal into expansive, riff-heavy soundscapes, drawing on the high desert's isolation for their dense, layered approach since forming in 2018.
Swarmlord is a black metal act from El Paso, Texas, active since 2013, channeling raw aggression and cold atmosphere from the border region's harsh landscape.
Swarn deal in death metal from Tartu, channeling extreme aggression from Estonia's second city. Formed in 2019, they bring fresh brutality to the Baltic death metal underground.
Lesser Poland's Swarost practice black metal from the southern Polish region since 2010. Their Slavic-deity-derived name channels the ancient god of fire and ironworking into compositions shaped by Lesser Poland's heritage.
Swart Impaler channel black/death metal from Koblenz, delivering the piercing brutality their name promises from the Rhine-Moselle confluence. Emerging in 2025, they bring fresh impaling intensity to the Rhineland-Palatinate extreme scene.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2021, Swartvoud crafts atmospheric black and doom metal with a cavernous, melancholic depth, blending slow-burning doom passages with frost-covered black metal atmospherics.
Los Angeles-based Swartwoud has operated since 2013 at the intersection of black metal, sludge, and crust punk, with an ambient undercurrent running through their abrasive, lo-fi recordings.
Swarzo is a symphonic and power metal band from Wilton, New Hampshire, formed in 2020, building melodic, orchestrally enriched metal in the tradition of European power metal.
Swashbuckle are a death/thrash metal band from Trenton, New Jersey, known for their pirate-themed lyrics and relentless d-beat driven assault, releasing albums such as Back to the Noose (2009) and Crewed by the Damned (2011) on Nuclear Blast.
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