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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Moab, Utah's Silence of the Mortuary bring death metal to one of the more geographically remote corners of the American underground, delivering the genre's morbid imagery and guttural aggression since 2017.
One-man cinematic folk black metal project from Leuven, launched in 2024, whose releases "Towards the Chimaera" and "Where Our Coils Collide" blend atmospheric black metal with folk instrumentation and cinematic grandeur. The project's name references sacred groves of Celtic religion, reflecting a deep engagement with pagan mythology.
Cleveland's Silence the Desolated began with noise and ambient experimentation before moving into black metal, a trajectory that informs a sound where atmosphere and abrasion coexist in equal measure since 2025.
Portland, Oregon doom metal act Silence the Father draw from the city's rich history of heavy, atmospheric music, channeling slow tempos and grief-laden atmosphere into their brand of traditional doom since 2014.
Atlanta's Silence the Martyr fuse the cold, mechanized textures of industrial metal with death metal's aggression and heaviness, producing a sound that is as calculated as it is brutal since 2014.
Devastating Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore (early); Deathcore (later) from San Antonio.
Ocean Beach, California's Silence the Prince work within melodic death metal's characteristic blend of harsh extremity and melodic guitar leads, bringing San Diego's coastal scene sensibility to a genre rooted in Scandinavian influences since 2018.
St. Louis-based Silence the Witness blend the hook-driven intensity of metalcore with the heavier, more technically demanding elements of melodic death metal, drawing on both traditions to craft a dynamic and aggressive sound since 2015.
Silence the Yearning blend melodic death metal with gothic metal from the Spanish underground, combining aggressive extremity with dark romantic longing. Active since 2015, they bring emotional depth to their Iberian melodic extreme sound.
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