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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Smokescreen is a progressive heavy and power metal band from Pelham Manor, New York, formed in 2025, combining soaring melodic power metal songwriting with progressive metal's structural complexity and technical ambition.
Smokestack Lightning is a psychedelic stoner and doom metal band from Burlington, formed in 2017, channeling Howlin' Wolf's iconic song title into music steeped in hazy, slow-burning riffs and lysergic desert rock atmosphere.
Smoking Mirror is a death metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2024, taking their name from the Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca and wielding brutal, technically grounded death metal with an underlying mythological darkness.
Gothenburg's Smoking Snakes play heavy metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2024. Named for the Brazilian WWII expeditionary force's emblem, their military-historical reference channels wartime courage into freshly-minted traditional metal compositions.
Smoky McBongwater deliver sludge and stoner metal from Boblingen near Stuttgart, their comedic stoner name setting the tone for hazy, riff-driven compositions soaked in THC-fueled aesthetics. Active since 2016, they bring unabashed stoner culture to the Swabian metal scene.
Smolder Glow is a blackened death metal band from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2020, fusing the blast-beat ferocity and tremolo aggression of black metal with the blunt, guttural weight of death metal.
Smoldering Torso is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Santa Venetia, California, formed in 2022, delivering relentlessly savage music that combines grindcore's speed and brevity with the gut-punching brutality of BDMG extremity.
Smorrah play thrash metal from Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr Valley, channeling aggressive velocity from one of Germany's great industrial cities. Active since 2018, they add to the Ruhr's deep tradition of aggressive metal.
Smorzando weave black metal and ambient textures from Zurich, creating compositions that drift between harsh extremity and ethereal soundscapes. Active since 2008, their musical term name (meaning "dying away" in Italian) perfectly captures their approach of letting aggression dissolve into atmosphere.
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