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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Boston's Serpent of Gnosis grind and bludgeon at the intersection of death metal and grindcore, channeling frenzied blastbeats and dense riff violence into tightly wound bursts of extremity since forming in 2019.
Ankara's Serpent of Old pair death and black metal from the Turkish capital since 2023. Their biblical-serpent name channels the ancient ophidian tempter into compositions of freshly-minted, dual-genre darkness from the Anatolian heartland.
Stockholm's Serpent Omega pair sludge and doom metal from the Swedish capital since 2013. Their name combining the serpent with the final Greek letter channels apocalyptic reptilian menace into over a decade of crushing compositions.
Seattle's Serpent Rider trade in epic heavy and doom metal — towering, slow-moving riffs anchored in classic doom traditions, carrying the Pacific Northwest's atmospheric weight with a sound that leans into grandeur and mythic heaviness since 2019.
Serpent Rites emerged from Le Mans in 2018, weaving black metal with an emphasis on dark ritual atmosphere. Operating within the fertile French black metal underground, they channel occult themes through raw, punishing compositions.
Rome's Serpent Ritual blend black and death metal with occult ceremony since 2018. Their ritualistic name matches a sound that channels esoteric themes through the genre's most transgressive traditions.
Kansas City's Serpent Sceptre arrived in 2024 with a blackened death metal approach, combining the ferocity of death metal with the cold, malevolent atmosphere of black metal in a city with a quietly growing extreme metal underground.
Active since 2014, Serpent Seed blend black metal's misanthropic rawness with the blunt force of punk, creating a caustic, lo-fi hybrid that strips the subgenre to its most aggressive and primitive impulses.
Moscow's Serpent Sermon merge black, death, and symphonic metal from the Russian capital since 2020. Their ophidian-homily name channels the serpent's teaching into multi-genre compositions of capital-city darkness.
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