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Shining is a Swedish depressive black metal band formed in Halmstad in 1996 by Niklas Kvarforth, who began the project at age twelve and released the EP Submit to Selfdestruction (1998) and debut album Within Deep Dark Chambers (2000) before fully assuming the vocalist role. The band's music combines raw, aggressive black metal with progressive elements and suicide-themed lyrical content, most notably on the album Halmstad (2007), and Kvarforth's confrontational live performances—including the infamous 2007 Diezel concert featuring Attila Csihar and Maniac—became notorious within extreme metal circles. The band has remained active and prolific into the 2020s, releasing their eleventh studio album in 2023.
Tampa grindcore outfit Shining Wizard — the name a nod to pro wrestling — blasts through short, violent songs with the manic energy and irreverence that defines Florida's thriving underground grind scene since 2021.
Saint Petersburg's Shiningstar craft symphonic metal from the cultural capital since 2020. Their celestial name and imperial-city grandeur channel stellar brightness into orchestral compositions of dramatic ambition.
Shinjuku is an American death metal and grindcore outfit that leans into the chaotic and brutal end of both genres, combining punishing blast-beat intensity with the nihilistic edge of grind since their 2021 debut.
Shiny Daggers deliver speed and black metal from the Danish underground, combining the velocity of speed metal with black metal's dark atmospheres. Formed in 2021, their paradoxically bright name contrasts with their extreme approach.
Boston's Shipwreck A.D. has been tearing through the intersection of hardcore, thrash, and crossover since 2006, earning a reputation as a ferocious live act whose sound carries both the muscle of thrash and the aggression of the city's hardcore lineage.
Los Angeles' Shire plays melodic heavy metal with a hard rock sensibility, bringing a classically-minded approach to hook-driven riffing and clean vocal power to the sprawling Southern California metal scene since 2013.
St. Louis' Shire operates in the harsher territory of black metal, carving out cold and aggressive material from Missouri's underground since 2013 with a rawness that keeps the genre's underground spirit intact.
New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.
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