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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Crema's Spleen Flipper weave black, death, deathcore, melodic death, and metalcore from the Cremona countryside since 2013. Their genre-spanning approach and visceral name reflect an unwillingness to be confined by stylistic boundaries.
Kharkiv's Spleteniye merge doom, death, and gothic metal from the embattled eastern city since 2020. Their Russian name meaning "interweaving" channels the entanglement of disparate strands into compositions of triple-genre atmospheric complexity.
Splinter Flesh deal in death metal from Wurzburg, channeling the visceral imagery their name evokes through extreme compositions. Formed in 2024, they bring fresh brutality to the Franconian underground.
Splitkick combine death metal with hardcore punk from Halle an der Saale, fusing extreme metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational energy. Formed in 2023, they bring crossover intensity to the Saxony-Anhalt scene.
Slam/brutal death metal band from the Black Sea port city of Varna, active since 2013. Their explosive blend of slam's crushing breakdowns and brutal death metal's technical ferocity makes them one of the heaviest acts on Bulgaria's eastern coast.
Stahl ("Steel") forge death metal from the Hamburg/Ahrensburg area, channeling industrial-strength aggression from northern Germany. Active since 2018, their German-language name reflects a commitment to hard, unyielding extremity.
Stahlkommandeur ("Steel Commander") unleash blackened death metal from Munich, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. Formed in 2023, they bring military-themed extremity to the Bavarian capital.
Stained Blood evolved from melodic death metal/deathcore into a more black/melodic death metal direction from the Barcelona area, deepening their extremity while maintaining melodic sophistication. Active since 2006, they're veterans of the Catalan extreme scene.
Stalker deliver death and thrash metal from Copenhagen, combining the predatory menace their name implies with extreme metal's aggressive energy. Active since 2016, they bring hunting intensity to the Danish capital's thrash/death scene.
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