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Svn.Seeker is a Bristol, Connecticut melodic death metal band formed in 2021, combining the hook-laden melodies and harmonic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition with the aggression of American death metal.
Salzburg-based sludge/post-metal act formed in 2022, with releases including "Exitus Triumphalis" and "The Ardent Weight Of Thoughts" that explore crushing heaviness and atmospheric depth. Their sound bridges the physical weight of sludge metal with the expansive dynamics of post-metal.
SVNTN is a metalcore band from Round Lake Beach, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the genre's characteristic blend of aggressive riffing, breakdowns, and melodic vocal dynamics from the Chicago suburbs.
Svoboda is a Minneapolis, Minnesota sludge metal band formed in 2012, whose name means "freedom" in several Slavic languages, playing slow, abrasive, and emotionally dense sludge rooted in the Midwest underground.
Svoghast is a black metal project from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2019, crafting raw and atmospheric black metal in the tradition of the American underground.
Miskolc's Svoid have been channeling black metal from northeastern Hungary since 2011. Their name suggests a void prefixed with darkness, and their sound delivers accordingly bleak and cavernous atmospheres.
Svolterr is an Indiana black/death metal and noise act formed in 2024, blending abrasive extremity with dissonant, chaotic textures in the vein of modern bestial underground acts.
Svalt practice black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2025. Their Swedish name meaning "starvation" or "famine" channels the deprivation of sustenance into compositions of freshly-minted atmospheric darkness.
Eskilstuna's Svaltfodd practice black metal from the Sodermanland forging city since 2018. Their Swedish name meaning "born of starvation" channels the origins of deprivation into atmospheric compositions from Sweden's historic blade-smithing center.
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