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The Selecter are a Coventry 2 Tone band whose music helped define the late-1970s British ska revival alongside the Specials, the Beat, Madness, and related groups. Formed in 1979 after an early instrumental track appeared on the B-side of the Specials' Gangsters single, the band quickly grew into a full unit fronted by Pauline Black and Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson. Their debut album Too Much Pressure remains a key document of 2 Tone's mix of Jamaican ska, punk urgency, new wave sharpness, and multiracial British social commentary. The Selecter stand out for the force of Black's voice and presence, as well as for arrangements that can sound tense, joyful, and politically alert in the same breath. Songs such as On My Radio and Three Minute Hero move with dance-floor lift while addressing alienation, identity, media, and youth pressure. After early splits and later returns, the band continued to represent the movement's living legacy rather than functioning only as nostalgia. The Selecter matter because they made ska punk feel intelligent, inclusive, and confrontational, using rhythm as a way to answer social division with speed, style, and collective motion.
The Sepulchral Diaspora is a doom metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2018. They create dark, sepulchral doom metal with oppressive atmospheres and funereal weight.
The Sequel is a gothic/melodic black metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They blend gothic atmosphere with melodic black metal.
Wichita, Kansas sludge metal outfit active since 2012, pouring out thick, tar-slow riffs and a suffocating low-end that commands patience from the listener in exchange for genuine weight. Wichita's isolation from major metal centers seems to have only concentrated their sound.
Peoria, Illinois metalcore band with roots going back to 2006, one of the longer-running acts in a Midwest metalcore scene that has produced consistently hard-working bands far from the coasts. Their extended tenure in the subgenre reflects a commitment to the aggressive, dynamic songwriting at metalcore's core.
The Seven Gates from Mâcon in Burgundy deliver death and progressive metal that opens portals of escalating complexity since 2009. Over fifteen years from the Saône-et-Loire wine country, they have crafted compositions that pass through successive gates of technical ambition.
The Seven Hills is a heavy metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2018. They deliver classic heavy metal with strong riffs and melodic hooks from the Croatian capital.
Black metal one-man band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2011 and entirely the work of Igor Goularth, who handles all instruments and vocals. After an early English-language EP, the project shifted to Portuguese with Capítulo I: Ruínas (July 2021) and continued the conceptual series with Capítulo II: Oceano.
The Shadeless Emperor is an epic/melodic death metal band from Larissa, active since 2013. Their regal name suits the grandiose scope of their melodic death metal, blending epic atmospheres with aggressive precision.
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