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Oklahoma City's Shame in Nothing arrived in 2025 playing heavy and thrash metal that reflects the mid-South's no-nonsense approach to aggressive music — direct, riff-forward, and built for the live stage rather than studio artifice. As one of the scene's newest entries, they carry on a thrash tradition that has long simmered beneath Oklahoma's heavier underground.
Shamed deliver melodic death metal from the small North Savo town of Kiuruvesi, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with rural Finnish intensity. Active since 2016, they bring heartland aggression to the Finnish melodeath landscape.
Pyatigorsk's Shammash practice raw black metal from the North Caucasus spa city since 2014. Named for the Mesopotamian sun god, their mineral-springs origins channel ancient solar worship into lo-fi compositions.
Stoner/doom band from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, formed in 2024. The five-piece lineup — JP Vieira on vocals, Arthur Biscotto and Daniel Hochwart on guitars, Iggor Concolatto on bass, and Lucas de Lucca on drums — recorded their self-titled Demo live at Rise Together Studio in May 2024, releasing it in August of that year.
Shamorga channel black metal from Tallinn, emerging in 2025 as one of the newest voices in Estonian extreme metal. They bring fresh darkness to the Baltic capital's growing black metal scene.
Shampoon Killer deal in "South Town Brutality" from Prague, with albums like "666: The Battle of Discopylae" and "Mankind Depravity" showcasing their unrelenting approach to brutal death metal. Active since 2007, they've built a reputation in the Czech underground for visceral, punishing extremity.
Sochi's Shamshur pair death and melodic death metal from the Black Sea resort since 2022. Their name and subtropical origins create an unusual contrast between vacation-destination warmth and extreme musical coldness.
Philadelphia-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Shane Lentz works in the space where progressive black metal meets experimental solo construction, releasing atmospheric and technically demanding music under his own name since 2014. His work is characterized by unconventional song architecture and a willingness to push black metal's melodic and harmonic conventions well past genre norms.
Columbus, Ohio's Shanghai operate in traditional heavy metal territory, drawing on the classic genre template while filtering it through the Midwest's straightforward, unpretentious approach to hard rock and metal since forming in 2017. Their Bandcamp handle — shanghaidoom — hints at an earthier, heavier influence lurking beneath the heavy metal foundation.
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