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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Nizhny Novgorod's Screed play heavy metal from the Volga-Oka confluence since 2009. Over fifteen years from one of Russia's largest cities, they have maintained a commitment to traditional metal.
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Scriptura deal in thrash and death metal from St. Erhard, combining rapid-fire riffing with death metal's low-end brutality. Their name suggests a thematic engagement with scripture and doctrine, filtered through extreme metal's confrontational lens.
Anthemic traditional heavy metal with a historical bent. Signed to Germany's Golden Core/ZYX Records. Have shared stages with Saxon, Voivod, Manilla Road, and Hammerfall.
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Dayton, Ohio's Scrotal Erosion arrived in 2024 trafficking in goregrind and death metal with the kind of grotesque specificity that the gore-adjacent subgenre demands — absurdist extremity, medical-horror song concepts, and a sound that prioritizes repulsiveness as an aesthetic virtue. Dayton has a quietly rich tradition of underground metal and hardcore, and Scrotal Erosion continues that tradition in its most extreme, least marketable form. New to the scene but clearly committed to the bit.
Scrotex play heavy metal from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, channeling classic metal energy from the Canary Islands. Active since 2004, they've spent two decades bringing traditional metal fire to the Atlantic archipelago.
Scrotum thrash from the northern French city of Douai, channeling old-school aggression with the anatomical bluntness of their name. Active since 2017, they bring provocative thrash to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais scene.
Scruff have been dealing in death metal from Nuremberg since 1998, making them long-standing fixtures of the Franconian extreme metal underground. Their quarter-century of activity spans multiple eras of German death metal.
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