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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Death/doom metal band from Mount Prospect, Illinois, formed in 2022, delivering the suffocating combination of cavernous death metal heaviness and doom metal's funeral pace that defines the death-doom subgenre.
Boston alternative and progressive metal band formed in 2020, blending the angular songwriting of alternative metal with the extended compositions and tonal exploration of progressive metal.
Synode channels black metal from the Aquitaine corridor between Bordeaux and Hendaye, active since 2012. Their name, meaning 'synod,' borrows religious assembly terminology to frame black metal steeped in anti-clerical and occult themes.
Atmospheric black metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, formed in 2017, crafting vast, celestial soundscapes that evoke cosmic desolation through layered tremolo guitars and sweeping ambient textures.
Long-running death metal and deathcore band from Chisago City, Minnesota, formed in 1986, one of the rare acts to span the original death metal era and evolve into the modern deathcore landscape over nearly four decades of activity.
Synrah is an industrial symphonic death/black metal band from Norco, California, formed in 2013, blending orchestral grandeur with mechanized heaviness and extreme metal aggression into a densely layered sound.
Syntax Error is a sludge metal band from Westlake, Ohio, formed in 2020, delivering the slow-grinding riffs and oppressive atmosphere characteristic of the genre.
Synthema Occvlta is a black/death metal project from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, drawing on occult imagery and the raw brutality shared by both extreme metal traditions.
Synthetic Mirage deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from the Castilian city of Burgos, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness. Formed in 2024, they bring illusory intensity to the northern Castilian scene.
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