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SUCKERPUNCH (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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On The Hunt (2023)
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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.
Splintered Throne is a heavy and power metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2012, playing melodic, anthem-driven metal with the soaring vocals and twin-guitar energy that characterize the classic power metal tradition.
Splintr is a sludge metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2025, emerging from the same Pacific Northwest underground that has long cultivated heavy, abrasive music built on low-end torment and feedback-laced riffs.
Split Image is a heavy and thrash metal band from Campbell, California, formed in 2019, playing riff-driven traditional metal with a thrash edge rooted in the Bay Area's storied history with the genre.
Split Image is a melodic heavy metal and hard rock band from South Easton, Massachusetts, formed in 2019, combining hook-laden traditional metal with melodic hard rock in the classic New England style.
Split in Half is a death metal band from Burlington, Vermont, formed in 2023, bringing crushing death metal to Vermont's small but devoted underground extreme music community.
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