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The Ancient Ones Blasphemies (2020)
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ken (2019)
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Syre is a heavy/power metal band from New Jersey, formed in 2013, crafting melodic, guitar-driven music rooted in classic heavy metal with the soaring ambition of the power metal tradition.
Syrebris is a progressive death metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2013, weaving intricate song structures and technical proficiency into a sound that balances brutality with compositional depth.
Syrek is a progressive/neoclassical metal and shred project from White Plains, New York, active since 2005, showcasing virtuosic guitar technique and classical harmonic sensibility within a heavy metal framework.
Syren is a heavy/power metal band from Whittier, California, formed in 2013, delivering melodic, hook-driven metal influenced by classic American and European power metal traditions.
Formed in Tirana in 1999 under the name Oblivion, Syrgjyn renamed themselves in 2003 and went on to release "Manifest of Essence," historically noted as the first death metal album published in Albania. Their sound evolved from melodic death metal roots to incorporate industrial touches and heavy metal melodic elements across both guitars and vocals.
Syrictus is a death metal band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, formed in 2017, crafting crushing, straightforward death metal within the long tradition of Midwestern underground brutality.
Syridas play melodic death metal from Ostrava, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with the gritty energy of their Moravian-Silesian industrial city home. Formed in 2021, they bring fresh melodic intensity to the Czech extreme metal scene.
Punishing Melodic Black / Death Metal from Lubbock.
Syris is a power/progressive metal band from South Elgin, Illinois, formed in 2014, blending the melodic grandeur and anthemic energy of power metal with progressive metal's penchant for dynamic complexity.
Epic Progressive Heavy / Power Metal from San Antonio.
Sysmo deal in death metal from Bilbao, channeling seismic-level aggression from the Basque Country's largest city. Active since 2005, they've spent two decades bringing tectonic brutality to the Basque underground.
System Horizon craft progressive metal from Helsinki, building intricate compositions that explore the boundaries of systematic musical organization. Active since 2014, they bring event-horizon ambition to the Finnish capital's progressive scene.
System of a Down shattered every convention of heavy music in the early 2000s, channeling Armenian folk melodies, political fury, and absurdist humor through Serj Tankian's otherworldly vocal acrobatics and Daron Malakian's frenetic guitar work. 'Toxicity' and the 'Mesmerize/Hypnotize' double album achieved massive commercial success while remaining genuinely subversive, establishing SOAD as one of the most original and important bands in rock history.
Novosibirsk's Systematic Chaos deliver technical melodic death metal from Siberia's academic capital since 2013. Their oxymoronic name channels the paradox of ordered disorder into compositions of precision-driven extremity.
Systematic Failure is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Yreka, California, formed in 2017, blending the melodic sensibility and twin-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity of metalcore.
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