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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Scratched Surface blend death metal, thrash, and metalcore from Goppingen in Baden-Wurttemberg, creating a versatile extreme sound that draws from multiple aggressive genres. Their Swabian output bridges the gap between old-school extremity and modern heaviness.
Scream from Within deliver thrash metal from Schlehdorf in the Bavarian Alps, proving that aggressive metal can emerge from even the most picturesque Alpine settings. Active since 2014, they bring mountain-forged velocity to the German thrash scene.
Scream of Silence deliver thrash metal and crossover from the Occitanie town of Montauban, combining aggressive velocity with punk energy. Active since 2018, they bring paradoxical silent-screaming intensity to the southwestern French scene.
Domodossola's Screamer merge black and thrash metal from the Alpine border town near Switzerland since 2011. Their mountainous, northern Piedmontese setting naturally informs a sound of cold, aggressive intensity.
Screaming Skull combine thrash and doom metal from Nuremberg, blending high-speed aggression with crushing, deliberate heaviness. Their Franconian output navigates the extremes of tempo and weight within their dual-genre approach.
Scriptura deal in thrash and death metal from St. Erhard, combining rapid-fire riffing with death metal's low-end brutality. Their name suggests a thematic engagement with scripture and doctrine, filtered through extreme metal's confrontational lens.
Scrotum thrash from the northern French city of Douai, channeling old-school aggression with the anatomical bluntness of their name. Active since 2017, they bring provocative thrash to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais scene.
Sculptor Void play thrash metal from Arnsberg in the Sauerland region, channeling aggressive velocity from the forested hills of southern Westphalia. Their name evokes the creative destruction at the heart of their thrash metal approach.
Scum blast through black, death, and thrash metal from Nausis, combining three of extreme metal's most aggressive strains into a single, unrelenting force. Active since 2010, they refuse to be pigeonholed into any single subgenre.
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