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The Split from Olomouc weave progressive metal complexity with rock accessibility, building intricate arrangements that balance technical musicianship with melodic hooks since 2013. Based in one of Moravia's oldest university cities, they bring an intellectual edge to their progressive compositions.
Prestonsburg, Kentucky's The Splitting fuse the corrosive weight of sludge metal with death metal's brutality, producing something rawer and more rural-feeling than the polished end of either genre. Active since 2015, they belong to the Appalachian underground where heaviness is measured in density and slow punishment.
The Steamrollers from Strasbourg deliver southern metal with the flattening, unstoppable force their industrial-machinery name promises since 2011. Over a decade of Dixie-soaked heaviness from the Alsatian capital — about as far from the American South as possible — they have transplanted the genre with conviction.
The Stellar Lake is a doom/gothic metal band from Drama in northern Greece, active since 2007. Their celestial name evokes the cosmic beauty that infuses their doom and gothic metal from the Macedonian heartland.
New Mexico's The Stone Ground are a solo atmospheric black metal project that layers cascading tremolo and ambient texture into expansive, landscape-evoking compositions since 2014. The project reflects the austere, wide-open character of the Southwest, filtered through black metal's introspective and raw-production tradition.
The Stoned Witches Experiment is a doom/stoner metal band from Olbia, Sardinia, Italy, formed in 2018. They create fuzz-drenched, psychedelic doom and stoner metal with occult-tinged grooves.
The Stones of Arkham from Leipzig merge stoner metal's fuzz-drenched grooves with doom metal's slow-burn heaviness, all through the Lovecraftian lens their name demands since 2014. Their cosmic horror-themed approach to riff worship channels both the weird fiction tradition and the psychedelic doom underground.
The Story So Far formed in Walnut Creek in 2007 and became one of the defining pop-punk bands of the 2010s by making the style feel sharper, colder, and more hardcore-informed. Early EPs led into Under Soil and Dirt, a record whose clipped rhythms, guarded melodies, and Parker Cannon's forceful delivery helped shape a whole wave of bands. What You Don't See and the self-titled album kept the pressure high with songs that turned distance, resentment, and self-protection into tight, shouted hooks. Proper Dose widened the band's sound with more space, acoustic texture, and mature pacing, while I Want to Disappear continued that evolution without abandoning the directness that made the band matter. The Story So Far fit punk scope through pop punk, melodic hardcore influence, and a live setting built on motion rather than polish. Their strongest songs are economical and emotionally guarded, but that restraint is part of the impact. They rarely over-explain, letting phrasing, tempo, and repetition make frustration feel cleanly cut.
The Strikes is a heavy metal band from Cosenza, Italy, formed in 2018. They deliver hard-hitting traditional heavy metal from the Calabria region.
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