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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Scivias operate as a black metal trio from Czechia, taking their name from Hildegard von Bingen's medieval visionary text. This unusual reference point for a black metal act suggests a contemplative, historically informed approach to the genre.
Sclerosis deal in death metal from Helsinki, their degenerative-disease name reflecting the genre's tradition of medical horror. Active since 2018, they bring pathological aggression to the Finnish capital.
Green Bay, Wisconsin's Scofflaw emerged in 2021 with a sound that fuses the hip-swinging momentum of groove metal with the tightly coiled aggression of metalcore. Their riffs land with a blunt physicality — chugging patterns that lock into a pocket before snapping into breakdowns — while the vocals shift between barked hardcore cadence and abrasive screams. For a young band out of Wisconsin's frozen flatlands, they arrived with a surprisingly seasoned sense of tension and release.
Scolopendra blast through thrash and death metal from Paris, named after the giant centipede genus. Active since 2015, they bring many-legged aggression to the French capital's extreme scene.
Out of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Scootergypsy has been hauling classic speed and heavy metal influence through the South since 2013 with a no-frills directness that feels ripped straight from the genre's early-80s heyday. Their music runs on twin-guitar attack and wiry, hard-rock swagger — the kind that sounds better on a back-road highway than in a concert hall. They sit comfortably in the tradition of NWOBHM-influenced American speed metal, with enough hard rock looseness to keep it from feeling purely academic.
Scopus Magnus deliver death metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling extreme aggression from the central Finnish Lakeland. Formed in 2024, they bring grand-scope brutality to the Keski-Suomi scene.
Scor channel black/death metal from Aachen, Germany's westernmost major city on the Belgian and Dutch borders. Formed in 2023, they bring extreme metal aggression to the Euregio tri-border region.
Scorch unleash death metal from the small town of Alpnach in central Switzerland, proving that extreme metal thrives even in the Alpine heartland. Their sound favors direct, punishing aggression without unnecessary embellishment.
Scorch the Earth deliver melodic death metal from Oulu, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with the scorched-earth policy their name describes. Formed in 2023, they bring northern Finnish fire to the melodeath tradition.
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