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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Head Cage (2018)
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Featured Power Metal Album
The Second Coming (1988)
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Surveillance is a Detroit, Michigan heavy metal act formed in 2014, drawing on the city's blue-collar hard rock heritage to deliver driving, riff-forward metal with a traditional sensibility.
Suspending Animation is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania band formed in 2017 that weaves together heavy, progressive, and thrash metal, balancing technical ambition with the propulsive drive of classic thrash.
Suspicion is a San Diego, California heavy metal band formed in 2016, rooted in traditional heavy metal before evolving toward a harder rock direction over the course of their career.
Sutrero is a San Francisco, California band formed in 2013 that layers heavy and stoner metal with hard rock influence, delivering thick, fuzz-drenched riffs grounded in the Bay Area's heavy music tradition.
Swine of Dissent is a heavy and thrash metal band from Oklahoma City, formed in 2020, combining classic thrash aggression with traditional heavy metal songwriting.
Madison, Wisconsin's Switchblade Monkeys have played groove and heavy metal since 2014, crafting punchy, riff-forward songs rooted in the Midwest's working-class metal tradition.
This Cincinnati, Ohio-based Sword plays traditional heavy metal and hard rock, formed in 2015 and rooted in the melodic, riff-centered songwriting of classic metal.
Sword and Shield is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Rutherfordton, North Carolina, formed in 2016, playing straightforward metal with a classic, no-frills approach.
Arlington, Texas band formed in 2013 working in a heavy/thrash metal vein with hard rock influences, named after the famous multiple-personality case and suggesting a similarly multifaceted approach to heavy music.
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