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Austin classic heavy rock in the vein of early Sabbath and Zeppelin. Big riffs, bigger hooks.
Scott Kelly is the longtime frontman of sludge-doom legends Neurosis, and his solo work — launched in Oakland in 2001 — strips the massive amplification away to reveal something rawer and more intimate: acoustic folk, sparse progressive structures, and the same scarred emotional intensity that defines his work with his main band. His voice, weathered and confessional, carries the weight of decades of extreme music through arrangements built on fingerpicked guitar and quiet devastation. It is metal's spirit filtered through folk's bones.
Scott Stapp is an American singer and songwriter from Florida, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Creed, the multi-platinum rock band whose albums My Own Prison (1997) and Human Clay (1999) together sold over seventeen million copies in the United States. After Creed dissolved in 2004, Stapp launched a solo career with The Great Divide (2005), which reached platinum certification, followed by Proof of Life (2013) and The Space Between the Shadows (2019). His fourth solo album Higher Power, released through Napalm Records in March 2024, produced the highest-charting non-Creed single of his career, reaching number 12 on Mainstream Rock Airplay.
Scour is a black metal supergroup formed in 2016 featuring Phil Anselmo of Pantera alongside members of Cattle Decapitation and Misery Index — and their sound is exactly as unhinged as that collaboration suggests. Dispensing with any of the atmospheric or philosophical trappings that define more artful black metal, Scour strips the genre down to its most primal violence: blinding blast beats, shrieked vocals, and riffs that feel like static electricity at lethal voltage. They are a study in pure, focused extremity.
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Brutal death metal band with hardcore influences from Borgerhout in the Antwerp district, formed in 2021. Their fusion of death metal brutality and hardcore aggression reflects the cross-pollination between extreme metal and punk subcultures thriving in Antwerp's diverse music scene.
Death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, formed in 2007 and signed to Cogumelo Records. The band released the album Hate Metal on May 27, 2014, through a joint partnership between Cogumelo and the US label Greyhaze Records, with production handled by Scourge and Rodrigo Nepomuceno at Chederrecords Studios in Uberlândia.
Scourge Lair channel death and black metal from Tampere, building dark, extreme compositions from their lair in Finland's second city. Active since 2017, they bring scourging intensity to the Pirkanmaa underground.
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