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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Spellbinder is a power metal band from Oakland, California, formed in 2001, delivering soaring, melodically driven power metal with the high-register vocals and twin-guitar harmonies characteristic of the American power metal style.
Spesimin is a Philadelphia-based band formed in 2020 that fuses thrash metal aggression with death metal heaviness and punk rawness, cutting through the city's underground with a no-frills cross-contaminated attack.
Spewtilator is an Atlanta band formed in 2008 that blends thrash metal speed with death metal brutality and grindcore chaos, maintaining a relentless and filthy live presence in the Georgia underground.
Spherical Obscenity is a Buffalo, New York band formed in 2017 that combines melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with traditional heavy metal structure, balancing hook-driven riffing against heavier rhythmic attack.
Spider Control Rod is a death metal band from Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, formed in 2024, adding a new and abrasive voice to the state's densely populated extreme metal underground.
Spider Corpse is a death metal band from Springfield, Missouri, formed in 2018, delivering punishing riffs and guttural vocals in the tradition of American brutal death metal.
Spike the Tomb is a Pittsburgh melodic death metal band formed in 2012, weaving Gothenburg-influenced melodic leads and twin-guitar harmonies through a backbone of forceful American death metal.
Crushing Slam / Brutal Death Metal from San Antonio, Texas / Weidman, Michigan.
Spinal Fetish is a death metal band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2023, playing visceral and gore-inflected death metal that fits comfortably in the midwest's brutal underground tradition.
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