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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Scheiterhaufen ("Funeral Pyre") forge black and doom metal from Frankfurt am Main, combining the atmospheric menace of black metal with doom's crushing deliberation. Formed in 2024, they bring a new voice to the Hessian financial capital's surprisingly deep metal underground.
Scheitern ("Failure") practice black metal from Berlin, channeling the genre's nihilistic spirit through compositions that embrace collapse and futility as artistic themes. Emerging in 2025, they represent the newest wave of Berlin black metal.
Schelmish was a German Mittelalter rock band from Bonn, formed in 1999 for a birthday celebration and describing their approach as 'heavy bagpipe-punk,' mixing medieval instruments with an energetic punk sensibility. The band released a prolific run of studio albums between 2000 and 2010, including Von Räubern, Lumpen und anderen Schelmen (2000), Aequinoctium (2001), Tempus mutatur (2007), and Die Hässlichen Kinder (2009), singing in German, English, Latin, French, and several historical languages. The group disbanded in December 2012, with several members going on to form the electro folk rock band InVictus.
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.
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