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Viribus Unitis (2025)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (2012)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Spheron deal in death metal from Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, channeling extreme aggression from the Palatinate industrial city. Active since 2013, they bring brutal intensity to the Rhine-Neckar region's extreme metal landscape.
Spicehead have been delivering heavy metal from the Kaiserslautern area since 1995, making them veterans of the Rhineland-Palatinate metal scene. Their three decades of activity represent a sustained commitment to classic metal from the western Palatinate.
Spider God weave together black metal's frigid tremolo work with melodic black metal atmospherics and metalcore breakdowns. This UK project launched in 2022, exploring the tensions between beauty and ferocity.
Cardiff's Spider Kitten have been lurking since 2003, spinning a web of doom, industrial, and stoner metal. Their eclectic approach yields a sound that is by turns crushing, mechanical, and hypnotically groovy.
Spiderpact craft avant-garde metal from the Finnish underground, pushing beyond conventional metal boundaries into experimental, web-spinning compositions. Formed in 2019, they bring arachnid ambition to the Finnish avant-garde scene.
Spiker play heavy metal and hard rock from Essen in the Ruhr Valley, channeling classic rock energy from one of Germany's great industrial cities. Formed in 2023, they bring fresh vintage metal spirit to the Westphalian scene.
Kyiv's Spikers deliver speed metal with punk influences from the Ukrainian capital since 2016. Their puncturing name channels the piercing force of driven nails into compositions of high-velocity, punk-charged intensity.
Spinal Deformation deal in brutal death metal from the German underground, their orthopedic-horror name reflecting the genre's tradition of medical grotesquerie. Formed in 2023, they bring bone-twisting brutality to the extreme scene.
Spinal Marrow deliver heavy and thrash metal from Madrid, channeling the genre's aggressive energy with the anatomical directness their name demands. Active since 2017, they bring bone-deep intensity to the Spanish capital.
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