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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Scherbenwald ("Forest of Shards") deliver melodic death metal from Munster, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Westphalian sensibility. Their evocative German name suggests a sound that balances beauty with brokenness.
Scherzo deliver melodic heavy metal and hard rock from Paris, their musical-term name (a lively, playful movement) reflecting their accessible approach to metal. Active since 2001, they bring two decades of Parisian melody to the French scene.
Relentless Post-Black Metal from Mansfield, Connecticut /.
Schistosoma take their name from a parasitic worm genus, fitting perfectly with death metal's tradition of biological horror. Based in Bad Windsheim since 2023, they bring pathological brutality to the Franconian countryside.
Vertep's Schiz deliver death metal from the Russian town since 2020. Their abbreviated-schizophrenia name channels psychological fracture into compositions of focused, fragmented extremity.
Catania's Schizo pair black and thrash metal from Sicily's volcanic east coast since 2005. Two decades beneath Mount Etna have forged a sound of explosive, unpredictable intensity.
Chicago's Schizophrenia are a thrash metal act formed in 2020, bringing the genre's raw energy to one of America's most historically metal cities. Their Bandcamp handle — schizophrenia-be — suggests a possible connection to or reverence for the Belgian thrash scene, adding a transatlantic edge to music rooted in speed, aggression, and classic genre fundamentals.
Schizophrenic Warfare blast through black metal, death metal, and grindcore from Jutland, channeling multi-genre extremity from the Danish peninsula. Emerging in 2025, they bring divided-mind fury to the Scandinavian underground.
An Austrian project whose name translates to "slaughterhouse future," Schlachthaus Zukunft began as an ambient black/industrial metal and drone outfit before evolving toward progressive and black metal territory across albums including "Absolve Domine" (2016), "Broken Chords Of Doom" (2018), and "Down to Heaven" (2020). The project is unsigned and operates entirely independently, resisting easy categorization across its shifting discography.
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