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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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An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.
Akron, Ohio's Skeptic Lens channels progressive metal's structural ambition through the heavy mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, building dynamic compositions that balance cerebral construction with visceral impact since 2021.
St. Louis's Skeptik has been blurring the line between metalcore, nu-metal, and electronic production since 2015, an unpredictable outfit that leans into genre-mixing with an anything-goes energy rooted in the Midwest's diverse underground.
Out of Santa Fe Springs, California, Skeptor has been honing a razor-sharp technical speed and thrash metal attack since 2014 — a Southern California act rooted in the region's rich thrash heritage but pushing toward more intricate, precise territory.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Skew fuses death metal's brutality with grindcore's short-fuse violence, delivering punishing blasts of noise from the heart of Appalachia's underground extreme music community since 2016.
Formed in St. Clairsville, Ohio in 2020, Skiba drags the heaviness of doom metal through thrash's aggressive forward momentum — an unlikely combination that suits the gritty, working-class sensibility of the Ohio Valley.
The storied heavy metal institution from Toms River, New Jersey, Skid Row have endured decades of lineup changes to remain an active force in hard rock and heavy metal, their anthemic arena sensibility keeping them relevant since the band's reformation.
Merrill, Wisconsin's Skies of Obsidian has been building progressive death metal compositions since 2012 — technically ambitious yet rooted in genuine brutality, emerging from a region not typically associated with the style's more experimental end.
Salt Lake City's Skies of Redemption has been fusing melodic death metal's emotive sweep with thrash's urgency since 2009, occupying an aggressive but melodically aware corner of Utah's metal underground.
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