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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Syris is a power/progressive metal band from South Elgin, Illinois, formed in 2014, blending the melodic grandeur and anthemic energy of power metal with progressive metal's penchant for dynamic complexity.
Epic Progressive Heavy / Power Metal from San Antonio.
Sysmo deal in death metal from Bilbao, channeling seismic-level aggression from the Basque Country's largest city. Active since 2005, they've spent two decades bringing tectonic brutality to the Basque underground.
System Horizon craft progressive metal from Helsinki, building intricate compositions that explore the boundaries of systematic musical organization. Active since 2014, they bring event-horizon ambition to the Finnish capital's progressive scene.
System of a Down shattered every convention of heavy music in the early 2000s, channeling Armenian folk melodies, political fury, and absurdist humor through Serj Tankian's otherworldly vocal acrobatics and Daron Malakian's frenetic guitar work. 'Toxicity' and the 'Mesmerize/Hypnotize' double album achieved massive commercial success while remaining genuinely subversive, establishing SOAD as one of the most original and important bands in rock history.
Novosibirsk's Systematic Chaos deliver technical melodic death metal from Siberia's academic capital since 2013. Their oxymoronic name channels the paradox of ordered disorder into compositions of precision-driven extremity.
Systematic Failure is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Yreka, California, formed in 2017, blending the melodic sensibility and twin-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity of metalcore.
Systematic Marsmurder have been dealing in death metal from Geislingen since 1991, making them one of the longest-running death metal acts in the Swabian Alps. Their three-decade commitment to extraterrestrial murder-themed extremity is remarkable in its persistence.
Systematic Sickness Kin blend death, thrash, and groove metal from the eastern Finnish city of Joensuu, combining three aggressive genres into a methodical assault. Active since 2015, they bring organized sickness to the North Karelia scene.
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