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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Sclerosis deal in death metal from Helsinki, their degenerative-disease name reflecting the genre's tradition of medical horror. Active since 2018, they bring pathological aggression to the Finnish capital.
Scolopendra blast through thrash and death metal from Paris, named after the giant centipede genus. Active since 2015, they bring many-legged aggression to the French capital's extreme scene.
Scopus Magnus deliver death metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling extreme aggression from the central Finnish Lakeland. Formed in 2024, they bring grand-scope brutality to the Keski-Suomi scene.
Scor channel black/death metal from Aachen, Germany's westernmost major city on the Belgian and Dutch borders. Formed in 2023, they bring extreme metal aggression to the Euregio tri-border region.
Scorch unleash death metal from the small town of Alpnach in central Switzerland, proving that extreme metal thrives even in the Alpine heartland. Their sound favors direct, punishing aggression without unnecessary embellishment.
Scorch the Earth deliver melodic death metal from Oulu, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with the scorched-earth policy their name describes. Formed in 2023, they bring northern Finnish fire to the melodeath tradition.
Scorched Earth deliver death metal from the Pink City of Toulouse, channeling extreme aggression from the Occitanie capital. Active since 2015, they bring scorched-earth devastation to the southwestern French scene.
Scoria deal in death metal and grindcore from the Champagne village of Gueux near Reims, channeling volcanic-waste extremity from the heart of France's premier wine region. Emerging in 2025, they bring geological brutality to the Champagne underground.
Scorn have been delivering death and thrash metal from the Basque-French border town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz since 1992, making them veterans of the Pays Basque extreme scene. Their three decades of scornful aggression represent remarkable longevity.
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