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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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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.
Spiral Fracture is a Richmond, Virginia melodic death metal band formed in 2017, combining the melodic sensibilities of the Scandinavian tradition with the harder-edged riffing of American death metal.
Spiteful Visions is a Minneapolis death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, incorporating melodic and technical death metal elements alongside deathcore breakdowns for a multifaceted approach to extreme metal.
Stand Ablaze is a Pocatello, Idaho melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2021, combining the melodic harmonic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with the structural intensity of metalcore.
American melodic death metal act formed in 2020, Stargrave crafts melodically-driven death metal that balances aggressive riffing with sweeping lead guitar work and dynamic song structures.
Melodic death metal act from Sacramento, California, formed in 2025, Stars in the Void brings a melodically charged approach to death metal drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
San Antonio, Texas melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2016, Start a War fuses the melodic aggression of Swedish death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
Greeley, Colorado symphonic melodic death metal band formed in 2019, Starwraith layers orchestral arrangements and cinematic keyboard textures over melodic death metal riffing and aggressive rhythmic attack.
Birmingham, Alabama death metal band active since 2005, State of Decay represents the deep South's underground death metal community with a straightforward, punishing approach to the genre.
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