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Akron, Ohio's Skeptic Lens channels progressive metal's structural ambition through the heavy mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, building dynamic compositions that balance cerebral construction with visceral impact since 2021.
Skepticism are legendary funeral doom pioneers from Riihimaki, widely regarded as one of the genre's founding acts alongside Thergothon and Funeral. Their glacially paced, organ-drenched compositions have defined funeral doom's sonic vocabulary and influenced countless bands worldwide.
St. Louis's Skeptik has been blurring the line between metalcore, nu-metal, and electronic production since 2015, an unpredictable outfit that leans into genre-mixing with an anything-goes energy rooted in the Midwest's diverse underground.
Urbana, Illinois' Skeptik plays stripped-down death metal with the directness and conviction befitting a university-town underground scene, having maintained their approach to the genre since forming in 2015.
Out of Santa Fe Springs, California, Skeptor has been honing a razor-sharp technical speed and thrash metal attack since 2014 — a Southern California act rooted in the region's rich thrash heritage but pushing toward more intricate, precise territory.
Skeuha practice black metal from Zurich, emerging in 2025 as one of the newest voices in the Swiss black metal scene. Their early work channels the genre's raw intensity through a fresh perspective.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Skew fuses death metal's brutality with grindcore's short-fuse violence, delivering punishing blasts of noise from the heart of Appalachia's underground extreme music community since 2016.
Skewed Skies craft progressive metal from Mainz, building intricate, technically demanding compositions from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital. Active since 2003, their two decades of work make them one of the longer-running prog metal acts in the region.
Dublin's Skewered deliver brutal death metal with the impaling violence their name implies since 2007. Nearly two decades of Irish extremity have honed their sound to a razor-sharp point of uncompromising brutality.
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