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Iowa's Swinery formed in 2014 and plays deathcore with death metal sensibilities, blending breakdowns and extreme metal intensity in the tradition of the Midwest's heavy underground.
Hamburg punk collective Swiss & Die Andern deliver politically charged, crossover-inflected German-language punk rock that blends hardcore aggression with hip-hop attitude and DJ scratching. Frontman Swiss leads the band through a prolific catalog — from 'Grosse Freiheit' to 'Erstmal zu Penny' — that tackles social issues with both fury and irreverent humor, earning them chart success and a fervent live following across Germany.
Switchback is a sludge and stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, active since 2013, delivering slow, heavy riffs shaped by the isolation of Cache Valley's rural landscape.
Crushing Sludge / Stoner Metal / Rock from Corpus Christi.
Madison, Wisconsin's Switchblade Monkeys have played groove and heavy metal since 2014, crafting punchy, riff-forward songs rooted in the Midwest's working-class metal tradition.
Swnw is an industrial sludge metal project formed in 2023, combining the mechanical grind of industrial metal with the sludge metal's slow, distorted heaviness into a harsh, rhythmic whole.
Swollen Teeth are a masked, anonymous band backed by Slipknot's Sid Wilson and legendary producer Ross Robinson, delivering what Robinson has dubbed 'tru-metal' — a ferocious cocktail of thrash, beatdown hardcore, noise rock, and goth-tinged melodrama. Their self-titled debut EP on Robinson's Blowed Out Records established them as one of the most intriguing and mysterious new acts in heavy music.
Swomp deal in death metal from Saarbrucken, channeling extreme aggression from the French-German border. Formed in 2022, they bring swampy brutality to the Saarland underground.
Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.
This Cincinnati, Ohio-based Sword plays traditional heavy metal and hard rock, formed in 2015 and rooted in the melodic, riff-centered songwriting of classic metal.
Sword and Shield is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Rutherfordton, North Carolina, formed in 2016, playing straightforward metal with a classic, no-frills approach.
Albuquerque, New Mexico's Sword Horse have played sludge and doom metal since 2018, incorporating noise elements into their heavy, slow-churning sound shaped by the high desert Southwest.
Black metal outfit from Massachusetts formed in 2022, channeling raw atmospheric intensity with a sound rooted in the grim traditions of the genre.
Nashville outfit formed in 2022 that mashes together sludge metal's crushing low-end, powerviolence urgency, and power metal's aggression into a deliberately abrasive and genre-defiant sound.
Frigid Black Metal out of Texas.
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