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Ad Astra (2025)
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On The Hunt (2023)
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Split Lung is a stoner, sludge, and doom metal band from Fresno, California, formed in 2015, specializing in heavy, slow-burning riffs and oppressive atmosphere within the Central Valley's underground heavy music scene.
Split Point is a groove, thrash, and heavy metal band from New Jersey, formed in 2017, blending the syncopated punch of groove metal with the intensity of thrash in a hard-hitting style rooted in the Garden State's metal underground.
Split the Abyss is a death and thrash metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2014, combining the aggression of old-school death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash in the tradition of the Midwest extreme underground.
SplitImage is a heavy metal band from Modesto, California, formed in 2019, playing traditional heavy metal in the Central Valley's underground scene.
SplitSick is a brutal death metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2019, delivering dense, low-tuned brutality from one of the Bay Area's more extreme metal acts.
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Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
Splitwig is a brutal death metal band from Newark, Delaware, formed in 2012, delivering the dense, guttural onslaught of US brutal death metal from the Mid-Atlantic underground over more than a decade of activity.
Providence, Rhode Island outfit Sponch traffics in abrasive sludge and doom metal, blending crushing low-end riffs with noise-inflected textures since forming in 2017.
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