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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Luminiferous (2015)
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Los Angeles' Shepherd brings a melodic sharpness to their thrash-infused death metal, weaving the hooky aggression of melodic death into a sound anchored by California's long history of speed and precision.
Vicious Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Abilene.
Shinjuku is an American death metal and grindcore outfit that leans into the chaotic and brutal end of both genres, combining punishing blast-beat intensity with the nihilistic edge of grind since their 2021 debut.
New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.
Mechanicsville, Maryland's Shit deals in death-laced grindcore with zero pretense, trading in short, furious blasts of extreme noise that sit comfortably in the American underground's most uncompromising corners since 2016.
San Clemente, California's Shit Wizard merges black and death metal with a nihilistic, lo-fi edge, building a reputation in the Southern California underground for unfiltered, filthy extreme metal since 2012.
Burlington, Vermont's Shitangel throws black, death, and thrash into a single caustic blender, emerging as one of the more abrasively minded acts in the New England underground with an irreverent approach to extreme metal since 2019.
El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.
Detroit's Shitfucker have been weaponizing the intersection of black, death, and thrash metal since 2005, lacing their filth-encrusted attack with punk belligerence — a Motor City band that sounds like it was dragged out of a dumpster fire and handed a guitar.
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