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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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Spectral Tower is an atmospheric black/doom metal project from San Luis Obispo, California, formed in 2014, crafting expansive, desolate soundscapes that merge glacially slow tempos with windswept black metal tremolo and melancholy atmosphere.
Spectral Voice is a death/doom metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2015, known for crushing slow-motion heaviness and cavernous, sepulchral atmosphere that draws comparisons to early Autopsy and Paradise Lost; they share members with Blood Incantation.
Spectral Voices is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Brooklyn, New York, active since 2005, blending technical death metal aggression with melodic sensibilities and progressive song structures.
Spectral Woods is a raw black metal solo project from Eureka, California, formed in 2019, producing primitive, lo-fi black metal rooted in harsh production and misanthropic Northern California forest aesthetics.
Spectre of War is an Austin, Texas band formed in 2021, combining the ferocity of death metal and thrash with the raw, anarchic energy of crust punk into a relentless, war-torn sonic assault.
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.
Black/doom metal from Dallas.
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.
Speedfreak is a Southern/heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2022, blending the groove and swagger of Southern metal with classic heavy metal riffing in an unusually Northern context.
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