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Steal evolved from funeral doom metal into a broader black/death/doom approach from the southwestern Finnish town of Salo, deepening their sonic palette while maintaining their extreme heaviness. Formed in 2024, they bring evolving darkness to the Varsinais-Suomi scene.
Steal My Hope craft progressive metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, building intricate compositions that explore the theft of optimism. Formed in 2020, they bring Arctic-circle progressivism to the Finnish metal landscape.
Los Angeles heavy metal band formed in 2016, rooted in the classic American heavy metal tradition with a no-frills approach to riff-driven songwriting and muscular song structures.
Heavy metal outfit from Vermillion, Ohio, formed in 2016, channeling the straight-ahead power and directness of traditional heavy metal from the shores of Lake Erie.
Seattle technical death metal band formed in 2014, pursuing the hyperkinetic complexity and surgical precision that defines the genre's most demanding practitioners on the West Coast.
Donetsk's Steam Hammer pair stoner and death metal from the war-affected eastern city since 2020. Their industrial-tool name channels the percussive force of steam-driven machinery into compositions of unusual genre-pairing from the Donbas.
Saint Petersburg's Steam Jet have been delivering stoner metal from the cultural capital since 2013. Their vapor-propulsion name channels the force of pressurized steam into over a decade of groove-driven, hard-rocking compositions.
Steam Slicer craft progressive metal from the university city of Heidelberg, building intricate compositions with the mechanical precision their industrial name suggests. Formed in 2023, they bring cerebral ambition to the Rhine-Neckar progressive scene.
Seattle progressive metal project formed in 2012 that integrates electronic elements into a heavy foundation, merging synthetic textures with the compositional ambition of progressive metal.
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