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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Systemic is a thrash/groove metal band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, formed in 2016, fusing the punishing mid-tempo pound of groove metal with the kinetic riffing energy of thrash.
Systol is a death metal band from Corpus Christi, Texas, formed in 2016, delivering blunt, stripped-back death metal from the Gulf Coast metal underground.
Systopia craft progressive and power metal from the Saarland village of Otzenhausen, building ambitious compositions that envision a systematic utopia through heavy music. Active since 2016, they bring conceptual ambition to the French-German border region.
Blackened death metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2016, with a lineup of Barroso Serra and Vinicius Dorneles on guitars, Felipe Ferreira on bass and vocals, and Jhoni Rodrigues on drums. The band released their debut full-length, Absurd, on January 25, 2023, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Barroso Serra at Maximum Violence Productions in Fortaleza; the album is structured around the Greek myth of Sisyphus, opening with 'Oneness And Dispersion (Preludium - Arising Of Sisyphus)' and closing with 'Fortress Of The Absurd (Postludium - Fall Of Sisyphus)'.
Sythe is a progressive black/death metal band from Portland, Maine, formed in 2014, merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality and progressive metal's structural ambition.
Wrocław's Sytris practice black metal from the Lower Silesian capital since 2009. Over fifteen years, they have contributed to Wrocław's increasingly recognized extreme metal underground.
Doom/death metal project from Sofia, formed in 2024, crafting crushing compositions that merge doom's suffocating tempos with death metal's guttural aggression. As one of the newest additions to Bulgaria's extreme metal scene, they represent the genre's continued evolution in the Balkans.
Syzslak is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania band formed in 2012 that combines the toxic heaviness of sludge and stoner metal with the chaotic noise-blast of grindcore into a deliberately abrasive and unpredictable sound.
Syojatar (from Finnish mythology's child-eating witch) channel post-black metal from the Finnish underground, drawing on dark folklore for their atmospheric compositions. Formed in 2022, they bring mythological horror to the Finnish post-black metal scene.
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