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Out of Mebane, North Carolina, Skull Servant play blackened thrash shot through with doom's heavy drag — a combination that gives their 2022-formed sound both speed and a suffocating, mid-tempo menace.
Cleveland, Tennessee's Skull Smashers are a young thrash act formed in 2024, operating out of a small southeastern city with outsized metal ambitions — loud, fast, and unpolished in all the right ways.
Everett, Washington's Skull Throne formed in 2020 at the crossroads of melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore — a Pacific Northwest act with a production-forward approach that suits the polished aggression of the modern extreme metal scene.
A California heavy/thrash metal outfit that materialized in 2025, Skullbuggery appears to be taking cues from classic metal's swaggering riff vocabulary, planting a tongue-in-cheek name on a foundation of heavy, speed-driven material.
Lexington, Kentucky's Skullcap formed in 2016 at the crossroads of thrash metal and metalcore, bringing a Southern-state edge to a sound that fuses the rhythmic aggression of hardcore-influenced metalcore with thrash's love of velocity.
Winston-Salem's Skullcollector have been wallowing in the tar-thick overlap of doom, sludge, and stoner metal since 2013 — a North Carolina act that favors bone-heavy riffs, deliberate tempos, and a tone that sounds permanently coated in smoke.
A California crossover act active since 2015, Skullcrack sit at the volatile intersection of thrash metal, hardcore, and straight-up crossover — short, fast, and built for the pit, with an HC-first mentality that keeps the music leaning aggressive and raw.
Phoenix death metal outfit Skullcrush formed in 2018 and have been carving out a brutal niche in the Arizona underground, delivering dense, low-tuned death metal with the kind of arid, unforgiving intensity that suits the desert Southwest.
Skulldemon practice black metal from the Finnish underground, combining skull-themed imagery with demonic atmosphere. Active since 2012, they bring infernal cranial darkness to the Finnish black metal scene.
Portland's Skulldozer emerged in 2015, bringing the Pacific Northwest's love of fuzz and fog to stoner-doom — slow and massive in the way that Oregon's heaviest acts tend to be, built on riffs that move like heavy machinery.
Long Beach, Mississippi's Skulldozer are an entirely separate outfit sharing a name with their Oregon counterparts, playing death metal out of the Gulf Coast state's small but determined underground scene since 2015.
Skulldriver deliver groove and thrash metal from the Swedish-speaking Finnish town of Liljendal, combining rhythmic heaviness with thrash velocity. Active since 2017, they bring skull-driving force to the Ostrobothnia scene.
Albuquerque's Skulldron have been working the stoner-doom corridor since 2012, with the high desert altitude and baking New Mexico heat lending their sound a suitably hazy, heavy quality — fuzzed-out riffs stretched over long, hypnotic structures.
Skulled play thrash and heavy metal from Bremen, combining classic metal foundations with thrash's aggressive velocity. Active since 2014, they contribute to the Hanseatic city's well-established metal tradition.
Virginia Beach's Skulless formed in 2017 at the edge of death metal and grindcore, favoring the kind of brutal, compacted brutality that drops all pretense and hammers straight through — short songs, maximum punishment, East Coast coastal aggression.
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