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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Enemies of Reality (Remixed & Remastered) (2003)
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Stench of Evil is an Atlanta, Georgia-based death/black metal and crust punk band formed in 2020. They combine the malevolent heaviness of death and black metal with the abrasive, politically charged energy of crust punk.
Stentor is a thrash/death metal band from Alexandria, Virginia, formed in 2024. Drawing on both the aggressive technicality of thrash and the darker textures of death metal, they represent a new entry in the mid-Atlantic region's underground metal scene.
Sterilized is a slam/brutal death metal band from San Diego, California, formed in 2020. They specialize in the genre's most extreme subdivisions, delivering the grinding breakdowns and guttural intensity characteristic of West Coast slam death metal.
Steve Irwin is a deathcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2015. Named provocatively after the late wildlife conservationist, the band delivers the crushing breakdowns, blast beats, and death metal-influenced riffing central to the deathcore genre.
Steven Taylor is a melodic death metal solo project from San Diego, California, formed in 2016. The project channels the guitar-driven melodicism of the Gothenburg tradition into a personal compositional voice, emphasizing lead work and dynamic arrangements.
Stigmata is a death/thrash metal band from Escondido, California, formed in 2008. They work within the aggressive tradition of West Coast death/thrash, combining the technical attack of thrash metal with the darker, heavier textures of death metal.
Stiles is a death metal and grindcore project from Lansing, Michigan, formed in 2012. The project operates at the intersection of grinds short, blasting intensity and death metal's more deliberately brutal compositional sensibility.
San Diego melodic death metal and metalcore act formed in 2004, blending aggressive riffing with melodic hooks in the tradition of the early 2000s West Coast extreme metal scene.
Hertford, North Carolina deathcore outfit active since 2010, delivering punishing breakdowns and low-tuned brutality drawn from the death metal and deathcore traditions of the American Southeast.
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