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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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A young black metal project emerging from Portland, Oregon's underground in 2022, Skeletorture leans into raw, uncompromising darkness — a city known for its fertile extreme metal scene providing fertile ground for this newly formed act.
Seattle's Skell has been grinding out thick, suffocating walls of sludge, drone, and doom since 2017, embodying the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of heaviness with slow-crawling tempos and abrasive textures built to crush.
Fairbanks, Alaska's Skellum has been delivering hard-hitting thrash since 2012, a testament to the tenacity of metal communities thriving in one of the continent's most remote and severe climates.
A freshly formed act out of Everett, Washington, Skelm weds death metal's brutality to hardcore's confrontational urgency, carving out a caustic niche in the Pacific Northwest underground since their 2023 formation.
Connecticut's Skeltima launched in 2023 with a sound that marries the grim atmosphere of black metal to the muscular directness of traditional heavy metal, staking out a place in the state's emerging extreme metal scene.
An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.
Normal, Illinois' Skeptic brings an industrial edge to the technical death metal formula, combining mechanical rhythmic precision with the clinical brutality of tech-death in a sound that feels machine-driven and merciless.
A Houston, Texas death metal act formed in 2022, Skeptic adds to the city's long-running tradition of uncompromising extreme metal with a direct, no-frills approach to the genre's fundamental elements.
Skeptic Green channel stoner metal from San Pedro del Pinatar in the Murcia region, building hazy, riff-heavy compositions from the Mediterranean coast. Active since 2014, they bring sun-baked, skeptical heaviness to southeastern Spain.
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