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A Past Embrace (2022)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (2025)
11/14 @ WC Social Club, West Chicago
Featured Death Metal Album
Echoes (2025)
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Splattered Entrails is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Levittown, New York, formed in 2006, combining the guttural density of brutal death with the surgical gore fixation of goregrind in the Long Island underground.
Splattered Spine is a brutal death metal band from Bear, Delaware, formed in 2023, representing one of the newer entrants in the Mid-Atlantic brutal death underground with a focus on crushing, bone-pulverizing heaviness.
SplatterFace is a death metal and goregrind band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2018, trafficking in gore-soaked extremity with the irreverent spirit typical of Southern California's prolific underground splatter scene.
Splatterhouse is a death metal and grindcore band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2016, named after the classic horror arcade game and operating in the Pacific Northwest's fertile extreme metal underground.
Splattershy is a slam and brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2025, one of the most recently active acts in the genre blending the breakdowns of slam with full-bore brutal death extremity.
Splatz is a thrash metal and punk band from Alton, Illinois, formed in 2021, playing raw crossover-influenced thrash on the border between metal and hardcore punk in the St. Louis area's underground.
Spliff Witch is a doom, stoner, and sludge metal band from Anderson, South Carolina, formed in 2021, delivering hazy, heavy-riffed music steeped in the psychedelic fatigue and swamp-weight of the Southern sludge tradition.
Spliffripper is a doom and sludge metal band from Kalispell, Montana, formed in 2021, offering slow, crushing heaviness from the remote northern Rockies, where the isolation of the landscape matches the oppressive weight of the music.
Spline is a southern metal band from Memphis, Tennessee, formed in 2010, channeling the groove, grit, and blues-inflected aggression that has defined the Memphis underground's hard edge for decades.
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