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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Three Sides of One (2022)
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Smother is a black metal and ambient project formed in 2023, merging the cold, tremolo-driven aggression of raw black metal with expansive ambient textures to produce a suffocating and atmospheric extreme metal sound.
Smothered Sun is a Maine technical death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, combining the intricate fretwork and time-signature complexity of technical death metal with the groove and breakdown dynamics of deathcore.
Smrt is a black metal project from Georgia formed in 2022, taking its name from the Slavic word for "death" and channeling stark, uncompromising black metal with a raw and nihilistic sonic character.
Formed in 2017 in Clifton, New Jersey, Snag tears through crossover thrash and death metal with a raw, pit-ready sound indebted equally to D.R.I. and early Morbid Angel.
Rochester, New York sludge and stoner metal band founded in 2011, channeling down-tuned riffs and slow, crushing grooves reminiscent of the Southern sludge tradition.
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Philadelphia death metal band formed in 2019, drawing on the city's storied extreme metal underground to craft dense, punishing material with an old-school sensibility.
New York City heavy metal and hard rock outfit formed in 2017, blending traditional metal songcraft with a gritty urban edge consistent with the NYC underground.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania heavy and power metal band formed in 2015, combining muscular riffing with melodic hooks in the classic American power metal tradition.
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