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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.
Scorngrain blend thrash and industrial metal from the eastern Finnish city of Joensuu, combining aggressive velocity with mechanical textures. Formed in 2023, they bring grain-grinding fury to the North Karelia scene.
Los Angeles spawned Scornmonger in 2025, a death metal project arriving in the city's perpetually crowded extreme music scene with something to prove. Rooted in the meat-and-bone tradition of straight death metal — dense, down-tuned riffing, blasted rhythms, and a vocal approach that's all growl and gravel — they carry the L.A. lineage of brutality without dressing it up. Young but clearly schooled, they sound like they've been studying the genre's architecture before tearing walls down.
Scornwind have been practicing black metal from the Breton port of Morlaix since 1992, making them one of the longest-running black metal acts in Brittany. Their three decades of contemptuous wind represent remarkable dedication to the genre.
Moscow's Scorpan practice raw black metal from the Russian capital since 2022. Their arachnid-inflected name channels the predatory patience of scorpions into lo-fi compositions of capital-city darkness.
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