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Nizhny Novgorod's Skald have been weaving folk metal from the Volga-Oka confluence since 2007. Nearly two decades of channeling the bardic tradition through their name has produced a catalog of folk-rooted compositions from one of Russia's most historically significant cities.
Skaldenmet play folk/viking metal from Hamburg, their name combining the Old Norse concept of skalds (poets) with met (mead) to evoke the drinking-hall traditions of Viking-age Scandinavia. Active since 2015, they bring Norse-themed revelry to the Hanseatic city's diverse metal scene.
Skalder channel black metal from Kothen in Saxony-Anhalt, drawing their name from the Nordic poetic tradition. Formed in 2020, they bring Scandinavian-influenced darkness to the central German plains.
Skaldhammer forge epic power and heavy metal, combining the grandeur of European power metal with the storytelling tradition of Nordic skalds. Their music channels mythological narratives through anthemic, heroic compositions.
Skaldr is a Virginia black metal project formed in 2018, drawing on the runic and mythological weight implied by the Old Norse name — a skald being an ancient Norse poet — to craft atmospheric, cold-blooded black metal. Their sound tends toward the introspective and Northern-influenced end of the American underground.
Skalfar practice black metal from the Hanseatic port of Stralsund on the Baltic coast, channeling the genre's cold fury from one of northeastern Germany's most atmospheric medieval cities. Active since 2016, they draw from their maritime surroundings.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
Skaltros is an ambient black metal project based in Ketchikan, Alaska, formed in 2020, and the remote coastal isolation of Southeast Alaska is audible in every note — vast, windswept, and desolate. They blend traditional black metal harshness with expansive ambient textures that evoke the Alaskan wilderness.
Skanttod channel black metal from Hesse, delivering harsh, uncompromising compositions from the central German highlands. Active since 2011, they've been a steady presence in the Hessian black metal underground.
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