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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Soterios is a metalcore band from Fayetteville, North Carolina, formed in 2012, part of the active metal scene that has developed around the Fort Bragg area and surrounding communities.
Soul Embraced is a Little Rock, Arkansas band formed in 2013 that blends melodic death metal with metalcore, having built a following within Christian metal circles while delivering technically accomplished and heavy music.
Soul Giant is a progressive metalcore band from Lafayette, Louisiana, formed in 2023, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness and structure of modern metalcore.
Soul Inside is a groove metal and metalcore band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2018. They blend the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal with metalcore's aggressive riffing and dynamic song structures.
Sound of Serenity is a Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2009 that combines metalcore's structural intensity with death metal's brutal sonic palette, operating in the space between melody-driven breakdowns and more extreme territory.
South Arsenal is a Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2017 that blends thrash metal's speed and aggression with metalcore's structural dynamics, carving out a hard-edged sound in the city's active heavy music scene.
Space Monkey is a metalcore outfit from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2018. They operate within the aggressive riff-driven sound of the Midwest metalcore scene, blending heavy breakdowns with melodic sensibility.
Dallas, Texas outfit Sparrows began in 2011 with a foundation in melodic death metal and metalcore before evolving toward a heavier blackened death metal sound, reflecting the broader evolution of the Dallas extreme metal scene.
Spire is a progressive death metal and metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, formed in 2004, blending technical guitar work and complex song structures with the heaviness of death metal and the intensity of metalcore.
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