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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Wild Child (2023)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Rome's Strengthcode blend groove and thrash metal from the Italian capital since 2010. Their encrypted-power name channels the precision of programming into rhythmically coded aggression.
Stockholm's Stressfest pair thrash and speed metal from the Swedish capital since 2023. Their anxiety-celebration name channels the paradox of festive tension into compositions of freshly-minted, high-velocity aggression.
Savona's Stria pair doom and sludge metal from the Ligurian coast since 2010. Their geological name, referencing surface markings, suggests a sound etched with deliberate, striated heaviness.
Strider play heavy metal from Helsinki, drawing their name from Tolkien's ranger king. Active since 2018, they bring Middle-earth-inspired classic metal to the Finnish capital.
Strife practice black metal from Barcelona, channeling the genre's confrontational fury from the Catalan capital. Active since 2015, they bring Mediterranean strife to the Spanish black metal underground.
Strigaskór Nr. 42 deal in death metal from the Reykjavik/Kópavogur area since 2013. Their enigmatic, numbered name reflects the Icelandic scene's tendency toward the mysterious and unconventional.
Strigiform deliver avant-garde black and death metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2009. Named for the owl order, their nocturnal-predator identity suits compositions of hunting, calculated extremity.
Strigon channel black metal from the Asturian city of Gijon, drawing their name from Romanian vampire folklore. Active since 2018, they bring Cantabrian darkness to the northern Spanish black metal scene.
Strike Back deliver death and thrash metal from the German underground, combining extreme metal's brutality with aggressive velocity. Active since 2015, they bring retaliatory force to the German extreme scene.
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