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Spiritus Vindictus is a raw black metal project from Wilmington, North Carolina, formed in 2023, embracing the genre's most primitive and lo-fi production values to deliver venomous, unadorned black metal.
Saint Petersburg's SpiritVale have been exploring progressive metal from the cultural capital since 2011. Over a decade, their spirit-valley name has channeled the geography of intangible landscapes into technically ambitious compositions.
Spiritwood channel atmospheric black metal from the Finnish underground, building forest-spirit-themed compositions that evoke Finland's vast woodland landscapes. Active since 2015, they bring arboreal mysticism to the Finnish atmospheric black metal tradition.
Las Vegas' SpiritWorld, the creation of vocalist Stu Folsom, blast a volatile fusion of hardcore, thrash metal, and Western-gothic storytelling they call 'death-western,' painting vivid narratives of frontier violence and supernatural dread over crushing, riff-driven aggression. Their debut 'Pagan Rhythms' and follow-up 'Deathwestern' on Century Media Records deliver a cinematic intensity that sets them apart from both the hardcore and metal worlds. SpiritWorld's unique thematic identity and Folsom's ferocious vocal delivery make them one of the most inventive and exciting bands in modern heavy music.
Spirotin is a Los Angeles band formed in 2021 that merges black metal and metalcore, combining the atmospheric malice and tremolo aggression of black metal with the rhythmic heaviness and breakdowns of metalcore.
Spirus is a Philadelphia black/thrash metal band formed in 1996, one of the city's longer-running underground metal acts, fusing the speed and riff density of thrash with the cold aggression of black metal.
Preston's Spit fuse groove and thrash metal into a confrontational, pit-ready assault. Since 2016, they have traded in no-nonsense aggression, delivering riffs designed to incite chaos at close quarters.
Kyiv's Spit Bile thrash from the Ukrainian capital since 2012. Over a decade from the Dnieper capital, their bilious-expectoration name has channeled the visceral act of expelling bitterness into compositions of sustained aggression.
Arnhem's Spit for the Masses channel black metal from the Gelderland capital since 2024. Their confrontational, populist-contempt name suits compositions of raw hostility from the city famous for its WWII bridge.
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