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Scoria deal in death metal and grindcore from the Champagne village of Gueux near Reims, channeling volcanic-waste extremity from the heart of France's premier wine region. Emerging in 2025, they bring geological brutality to the Champagne underground.
Scoria is a thrash metal and crossover band from La Paz, Bolivia, with roots stretching back to 1992, making them one of the longer-running acts in the country's metal underground. The band released a string of full-lengths across the 2000s and 2010s — including Anti-Bolivia (2000), Sol (2002), Resistencia (2004), and Inmortal (2018) — documenting over two decades of politically charged and socially critical Bolivian metal. Their 2021 live album Vive captures the band's enduring presence on the La Paz scene.
One of the longer-running black metal acts in the northern Virginia underground, Fairfax's Scorn has maintained an uncompromising presence since 1992 — outlasting trends, line-up shifts, and the general churn of the American black metal scene. Their output is rooted in the raw, hateful aesthetic of second-wave black metal: tremolo-drenched riffing, blasphemous atmosphere, and a commitment to the form that three decades haven't softened. They remain one of the quiet veterans of the East Coast underground.
Scorn Crows deliver groove metal from Lyon, channeling rhythmic heaviness with the corvid-contempt themes their name suggests. Active since 2018, they bring Rhone Valley groove to the French metal scene.
A melodic black metal band from Oberwart, Burgenland formed in 2006, Scorned toured Germany supporting Six Feet Under and Illdisposed after being discovered by Sweden's Moan Music Productions. After disbanding in late 2011 following a performance at the Dark Crusade Festival in Styria, the band reformed in 2012 without their keyboard player.
Brutal death metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, founded in 1993 by A. Mauricio Laube (guitar), Silvio Knop (bass), Giovanni Schneider (vocals), and Osvalnir Vieira (drums). After multiple lineup changes the project became Laube's sole vehicle from 2002 onward; he released the Majesty demo in February 1995, the full-length Bloodshedding in 2011, and Monolithic Insanity in 2016, performing and producing all instruments himself.
Scornforger thrash from the French Riviera towns of Nice, Frejus, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, and Peira Cava, combining aggressive velocity with the glamorous Mediterranean coast as their unlikely backdrop. Emerging in 2025, they bring Cote d'Azur fury to the French thrash scene.
Scornful deliver death and thrash metal from the West Zealand town of Horve, channeling extreme aggression from rural Denmark. Emerging in 2025, they bring contemptuous intensity to the Danish metal scene.
Scornful Enlightenment craft atmospheric sludge and doom metal from the Finnish underground, building immersive, heavy compositions that channel intellectual contempt. Formed in 2019, they bring crushing philosophical weight to the Finnish atmospheric metal scene.
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