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Cincinnati, Ohio's Scab Hag formed in 2021 and carved out a niche in straightforward, no-frills death metal in the classic mold — grimy riffs, guttural vocals, and a sound that doesn't reach for complexity so much as it reaches for your throat. Their name suggests both ugliness and irreverence, two qualities that map cleanly onto the music.
Scabbard deal in death metal from Spytihnev, a small Moravian town that belies the heaviness of their output. Their sound favors direct, brutal aggression in the European death metal tradition.
Endicott, New York's Scabiasis are a brutal death metal act formed in 2024, arriving fully committed to the genre's most punishing conventions — blast beats, downtuned guitars, and guttural extremity in the tradition of the New York brutality scene. Young and freshly hatched, their chosen genre name (derived from a parasitic skin infection) signals exactly the kind of medical-horror aesthetic that brutal death metal has always favored.
Scabiei forge black/death metal from the northern French city of Lille, their scabies-inspired Latin name reflecting the itching extremity of their sound. Emerging in 2025, they bring infectious darkness to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais underground.
Scabz deliver melodic death/black metal from Ulm, blending the harmonic sophistication of melodeath with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their Swabian base places them in southern Germany's thriving extreme metal landscape.
Formed in Salzburg in 1990, Scaffold played progressive thrash/heavy metal in the technical vein, drawing comparisons to acts like Toxik and Osiris, and released a demo titled "Your Chance Is Black" in 1991. They represent the progressive end of Austria's early-1990s thrash underground, blending full-fledged prog arrangements with thrashing aggression before disbanding.
Fermo's Scala Mercalli blend heavy and power metal with a name referencing the earthquake intensity scale since 2019. Their seismological moniker promises music of tectonic force from the Marche region.
Krasnoyarsk's Scalblood pair death and melodic death metal from the central Siberian capital since 2015. Their name and Yenisei River origins channel the scale of Siberian geography into compositions balancing brutality with melody.
Scalding Coffee Cup craft progressive and melodic death metal from the Alpine city of Grenoble, their everyday-life name adding absurdist contrast to their technical compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring caffeinated intensity to the Dauphine scene.
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