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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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Soraya are a heavy, speed, and thrash metal band from Palmdale, California, formed in 2021, channeling the raw energy of classic 80s metal into a modern context with an emphasis on speed and traditional song structures.
Sound Barrier is a Houston, Texas heavy/speed metal outfit formed in 2017, delivering aggressive riff-driven metal that blends classic heavy metal foundations with the harder-edged momentum of speed metal.
Sovereignty is a New York speed/thrash metal band formed in 2019, fusing the velocity of speed metal with the punishing riff structures of classic thrash.
Spater is a speed and thrash metal band from Newark, New York, formed in 2004, blending the kinetic energy of classic speed metal with thrash aggression and punk attitude in the vein of the genre's old-school practitioners.
Speed Demon is a thrash/speed metal band from Monterey, California, formed in 2022, drawing on punk-infused speed metal in the mold of early Motörhead and Agent Steel, favoring raw velocity and stripped-down song structures.
SpeedBurner is a speed/thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2019, playing fast, stripped-down metal informed by the early 1980s speed metal tradition and classic thrash aggression.
Speedwolf is a speed metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2011, playing raw and driving speed metal heavily indebted to Motörhead and the early 1980s metal/punk crossover, with a gritty, road-worn sound.
Spellcaster is a heavy/speed metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2014, reviving the NWOBHM-influenced speed metal sound of the early 1980s with strong melodies, galloping riffs, and a classic aesthetic.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Sponsel play a hard-driving blend of heavy, power, and speed metal, channeling the high-energy urgency of the classic American metal underground since 2017.
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