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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/21 @ 170 Russell, Melbourne
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Denver's Seren occupy an ambitious crossroads of progressive black and death metal with metalcore influences, weaving volatile extremity and structural complexity into a sound that has distinguished the band in Colorado's underground since 2017.
San Diego's Sergulath fuse orchestral grandeur with the raw edge of black and thrash metal, building a symphonic black/thrash sound that sets them apart in Southern California's scene since their 2018 formation.
New York's Serling arrived in 2021 with a stripped-down black metal approach — raw, atmospheric, and rooted in the cold intensity that defines underground USBM, named with a nod to the state's tradition of uncompromising darkness.
Twin Falls, Idaho's Serpens Cauda bring technical progressive metal out of an unlikely locale, pursuing intricate compositional structures and demanding musicianship in a region rarely spotlighted for extreme metal since the band's 2021 formation.
Formed in 2025 out of Gilroy, California, Serpent and the Sun drive a groove-heavy thrash metal sound rooted in riff-forward aggression and thick rhythmic punch — a brand-new presence in the Bay Area's deep-rooted thrash tradition.
Hailing from Sacred Mountain, North Carolina, Serpent Garden have been cultivating heavy, hazy stoner metal since 2008 — one of the longer-tenured acts in the region's underground, built on fuzz-drenched riffs and a slow-burning, ritualistic heaviness.
Boston's Serpent of Gnosis grind and bludgeon at the intersection of death metal and grindcore, channeling frenzied blastbeats and dense riff violence into tightly wound bursts of extremity since forming in 2019.
Seattle's Serpent Rider trade in epic heavy and doom metal — towering, slow-moving riffs anchored in classic doom traditions, carrying the Pacific Northwest's atmospheric weight with a sound that leans into grandeur and mythic heaviness since 2019.
Kansas City's Serpent Sceptre arrived in 2024 with a blackened death metal approach, combining the ferocity of death metal with the cold, malevolent atmosphere of black metal in a city with a quietly growing extreme metal underground.
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