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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/27 @ Théâtre Beanfield, Montreal
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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Novokuznetsk's Sgusch grind from the Siberian steel city since 2017. Their compressed name and industrial origins in the Kuznetsk Basin channel the density of molten metal into bursts of grindcore extremity.
Shabash craft gothic metal from the Russian-speaking city of Narva on Estonia's eastern border, creating a bridge between Baltic and Russian metal traditions. Active since 2012, their border-city origins lend a unique cultural dimension to their dark romantic sound.
Portland, Maine's Shabti have been developing a sophisticated strain of progressive death metal since 2010, weaving technical complexity and compositional ambition into material that still hits with the weight the genre demands. They sit in the upper tier of the Northeast's underground extreme scene.
Tolyatti's Shadar Logoth practice black metal named for the Wheel of Time cursed city since 2006. Two decades from Russia's automotive capital channel literary-fantasy darkness into atmospheric compositions.
Shaddai have been practicing black metal from Montreux since 1999, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Swiss black metal underground. Their decades of activity have produced a body of work steeped in darkness and the cold tradition of European black metal.
Umea's Shade of Black practice black metal from the northern Swedish university city since 2011. Over a decade from the Vasterbotten capital, their tonal-darkness name has shaped atmospheric compositions.
Umea's Shade of Grey explore progressive melodic heavy metal from the northern university city since 2011. Their morally ambiguous name channels the complexity between absolutes into compositions of technical sophistication.
Portland, Oregon's Shade of Ice work the space between melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility and straight death metal's blunt force, delivering a sound that's harsher than most melodeath but more structured than pure brutality. Formed in 2014, they've built a presence in the Pacific Northwest underground on the strength of that balance.
Death metal and grindcore band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, active from 2011 until splitting up in 2019. The band released a series of self-produced recordings including the demo Fallout (2011), Songs Thou Shall Worship (2012), Fonograms of Terror and Violence (2012), Natura Humana Abraxas – First Movement (2013), and We Are the Plague (2015), documenting a run of anti-human hardcore punk-inflected extreme metal.
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