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NWOTHM band from Paraíba, Brazil, started in 2015 as a solo project by guitarist and vocalist Leonardo Felipe before expanding to a full lineup featuring Victor Laudelino on bass, Erivan Letal on guitar, and Ricardo Batera on drums. The band recorded their debut album Herdeiros in 2019 and followed it with Ao Anoitecer in May 2024, singing entirely in Portuguese.
Sinamore craft gothic metal and rock from the southeastern Finnish port of Hamina, weaving dark romantic themes through melodic heavy compositions. Active since 2006, they bring two decades of Kymenlaakso gloom to the Finnish gothic scene.
Intense Metalcore from Fort Worth.
Since the Day have been playing metalcore from the Siegerland region since 1996, making them one of the earliest metalcore acts in Germany. Their nearly three decades of activity predates metalcore's mainstream breakthrough and spans its entire evolution in the German scene.
Wind Gap, Pennsylvania's Since the Fire have played metalcore since 2016, emerging from a small Lehigh Valley town where the genre's intensity likely provided a potent contrast to rural quiet. Their music fits squarely within the modern metalcore tradition of aggressive riffing paired with melodic dynamics.
Scranton, Pennsylvania's Since the Light blend thrash and death metal into a hybrid that's been active since 2011, drawing on the aggression of both genres while the former mining city's blue-collar character lends their sound an earned toughness. The death-thrash intersection they occupy rewards fans of both genres' most brutal tendencies.
Irkutsk's Sincerity of Lost pair death and doom metal from the Baikal city since 2020. Their name of honest grief and origins near the world's deepest lake channel authentic sorrow into compositions of Siberian heaviness.
Sincope is a thrash/crossover hardcore band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring Gaby on vocals, Bava on guitar, and Pela on drums. The band has released three studio albums: "Nuestra Generación" (2004), "Carroña" (2013), and "Somos Culpables" (2016), all independently produced and self-managed. Their music addresses social and political themes from a working-class perspective, and they have sustained over two decades in the Buenos Aires underground scene.
Sincreation deliver melodic death metal from Kouvola, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with their own southeastern Finnish character. Active since 2016, they bring sinful creation to the Kymenlaakso metal scene.
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