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Formed in 2016 in Enid, Oklahoma, Self Inflicted drag the Southern metal tradition through the murk of sludge and doom, delivering slow-motion riffs drenched in feedback and regional grit. Their sound carries the weight of the Great Plains — unhurried, oppressive, and built low to the ground. Equal parts stoner haze and Southern hostility, they're a fitting product of Oklahoma's hard-edged underground.
This Gaithersburg, Maryland act formed in 2016 and approaches heavy metal from a thrash-rooted angle, combining the punch of classic American thrash with the no-nonsense directness of traditional heavy metal. Their sound favors aggressive riffing and straightforward song structures over technical complexity, placing them squarely in the lineage of East Coast hard metal acts. Active and still developing, they represent a blue-collar strain of metal that owes more to the road than the studio.
A relatively new project out of Worcester, Massachusetts, Self Inflicted Gunshot Wounds formed in 2021 and traffic in a raw, uncompromising hybrid of black and death metal that leans heavily on ugliness as an aesthetic virtue. Worcester has a long history of producing abrasive, extreme music, and this project fits that lineage well — dissonant, violent in tone, and deliberately difficult. Their Bandcamp presence suggests a lo-fi approach that favors atmosphere over polish.
Self Inflikted deliver melodic death metal from Toulouse, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with the warmth of the Occitanie capital. Active since 2013, they bring self-inflicted intensity to the southwestern French scene.
Akron's Self Loathing formed in 2018 and operate at the volatile intersection of death metal and hardcore punk, bringing the blunt-force aggression of the latter to the low-end brutality of the former. The band's crossover approach is rooted in the Rust Belt tradition of music that doesn't ask permission — short, crushing, and direct. They're part of a small but committed Ohio underground scene that treats genre boundaries as obstacles to be demolished.
Self-Mutilation is a brutal death and slam metal band from Mendoza, Argentina, that released their debut album "Horrendous Anomalies" in November 2019 through Grinder Cirujano Records, with international distribution handled by Sevared Records in the USA and Rapture Records in Brazil. The seven-track record placed the band within the tight-knit South American slamming brutal death scene.
Viennese atmospheric black metal project that emerged in 2020 with a self-titled three-track release spanning 22 minutes of immersive, layered compositions. Songs like "As I Am Falling From Inside" and the German-language closer "Das Ende" demonstrate a deeply introspective approach to the genre's expansive sonic palette.
Self Revolution is a UK-based Killswitch Engage tribute band formed in 2021, faithfully recreating the full legacy of one of metalcore's most influential acts by covering material spanning both the Howard Jones and Jesse Leach eras. Their live performances capture the intensity and melodic power that made Killswitch Engage a genre-defining force.
A shadowy Midwestern entity that emerged in 2017, Self Slaughter blend black and death metal in the raw, no-frills manner common to the American underground that operates entirely outside of metropolitan scenes. Their deliberately anonymous presentation — no fixed city listed, a no-frills Bandcamp — reflects a project more interested in creating suffocating extreme metal than building a public profile. The combination of black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal's brutality gives their music an especially oppressive quality.
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