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Severe Torture is a Dutch brutal death metal band formed in 1997 in the Netherlands, rooted in the uncompromising heaviness of Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus. The band broke through with their debut Feasting on Blood (2001) on Earache Records, hailed as a landmark entry in the emerging brutal death metal subgenre, and followed it with Fall of the Despised (2005), Sworn Vengeance (2007), and Slaughtered (2010) on Season of Mist. After a lengthy quiet period, the band returned in 2022 with the EP Fisting the Sockets.
Severed is a New York metalcore band with roots stretching back to 1980, making them one of the longer-standing acts in the genre's history. They blend aggression and structure in the metalcore mold, drawing on decades of East Coast heavy music tradition.
Severed is a San Diego death metal band with origins dating to 1980, placing them among the early practitioners of the West Coast's extreme underground. Their sound sits squarely in classic American death metal, shaped by decades of San Diego's historically fertile metal scene.
Severed Angel is a Levittown, New York act founded in 2022, weaving symphonic grandeur into a heavy metal foundation. Metal Archives classifies them under melodic and symphonic heavy metal, suggesting a focus on sweeping arrangements and melodic hooks rather than brute force.
Severed Boy is a Boston, Massachusetts project formed in 2021 that dissolves the lines between black metal, death metal, and funeral-paced doom. Their Bandcamp presence reflects an underground one-person or small-band aesthetic, channeling bleakness through a dense, multi-genre lens.
Severed by Dawn formed in Columbia, South Carolina in 2021, working at the intersection of death metal and deathcore. They lean into the modern heaviness of deathcore breakdowns while retaining old-school death metal brutality, a combination well-suited to the South Carolina underground.
Stockholm's Severed Garden deliver death metal from the Swedish capital since 2013. Their name of a cut-off paradise channels the violent separation from beauty into over a decade of compositions.
Severed Hand is a heavy and power metal band from Eatontown, New Jersey, formed in 2023. They traffic in the melodic, riff-driven side of the power metal spectrum, a relatively rare pursuit in the modern New Jersey underground.
Razor-sharp Death / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.
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