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Saint Petersburg's Second to Sun practice raw black metal from the former imperial capital since 2011. Their cosmic name and cultural-capital origins channel the fire of approaching the sun into over a decade of atmospheric compositions.
Second-Hand Apes deliver stoner and doom metal from the eastern Finnish city of Joensuu, building hazy, riff-heavy compositions from the North Karelian capital. Active since 2017, they bring primate-themed fuzz to the Finnish stoner/doom scene.
Death metal and hardcore band from Brasília, DF, formed around 1993. Their debut full-length Hell is Here — 13 tracks recorded in 2005 and mixed in 2006 — was launched at a release show at Blackout Bar in Brasília on November 1, 2008, alongside local acts Violator, Death Slam, and Cabrunco; the album includes a cover of "Stage" by English death metal band Benediction.
New York death metal outfit Secrecy have been carving out their corner of the underground since 2014, delivering the kind of dense, uncompromising brutality the state's metal scene has long been known for. Their approach favors heaviness over accessibility, rooting itself in the cavernous traditions of American death metal without apology.
Hailing from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, this incarnation of Secrecy takes the thrash blueprint and runs it through a New England sensibility — tight riffing, aggressive tempos, and a no-frills attitude that nods to the genre's Bay Area and East Coast forebears. Active since 2014, they represent the kind of working-class thrash that keeps the underground honest.
Los Angeles avant-garde death metal project Secrelict emerged in 2023 with a mandate to push the genre past its conventional borders, blending dissonance, unconventional structures, and experimental textures into a distinctly modern form of extremity. The band's approach treats death metal as a starting point rather than a destination, fracturing familiar heaviness into something genuinely unsettling.
Secret Discovery are gothic rock/metal veterans from Bochum who have been active since 1989, with their 10th album "Truth, Faith, Love" released in 2023. Founded by brothers Kai and Falk Hoffmann, they established themselves as fixtures of the European goth scene during the 1990s and continue to evolve after more than three decades.
Secret Fear deliver thrash metal from Flensburg, Germany's northernmost major city on the Danish border. Active since 2015, they channel old-school thrash aggression from a maritime outpost where Germany meets Scandinavia.
Secret Mutilation have been dealing in slam and brutal death metal from Chur since 2007, making them one of Switzerland's longest-running purveyors of guttural extremity. Their approach is unrelenting, favoring crushing breakdowns and inhuman vocals.
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