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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Madness (2017)
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Lexington, Kentucky's Shinigami has been channeling raw black metal with a long-running underground devotion since 2000, bringing a lo-fi, unpolished conviction to the American black metal fringe.
Out of Stephenville, Texas, Shinigami no Yuujin delivers raw, isolated black metal with a deep personal intensity, operating in the margins of the Texas underground since 2015 with a commitment to the genre's most austere traditions.
Tampa grindcore outfit Shining Wizard — the name a nod to pro wrestling — blasts through short, violent songs with the manic energy and irreverence that defines Florida's thriving underground grind scene since 2021.
Shinjuku is an American death metal and grindcore outfit that leans into the chaotic and brutal end of both genres, combining punishing blast-beat intensity with the nihilistic edge of grind since their 2021 debut.
Boston's Shipwreck A.D. has been tearing through the intersection of hardcore, thrash, and crossover since 2006, earning a reputation as a ferocious live act whose sound carries both the muscle of thrash and the aggression of the city's hardcore lineage.
Los Angeles' Shire plays melodic heavy metal with a hard rock sensibility, bringing a classically-minded approach to hook-driven riffing and clean vocal power to the sprawling Southern California metal scene since 2013.
St. Louis' Shire operates in the harsher territory of black metal, carving out cold and aggressive material from Missouri's underground since 2013 with a rawness that keeps the genre's underground spirit intact.
New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.
Mechanicsville, Maryland's Shit deals in death-laced grindcore with zero pretense, trading in short, furious blasts of extreme noise that sit comfortably in the American underground's most uncompromising corners since 2016.
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