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Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Scruff have been dealing in death metal from Nuremberg since 1998, making them long-standing fixtures of the Franconian extreme metal underground. Their quarter-century of activity spans multiple eras of German death metal.
Scrying Mirror forge heavy metal from Augsburg, their occult-tinged name suggesting a mystical dimension to their traditional metal approach. Formed in 2020, they bring divination-themed imagery to Bavarian Swabia's heavy metal scene.
Sculforge deliver speed and power metal from a Berlin-to-Stuttgart axis, combining the velocity of speed metal with power metal's anthemic grandeur. Their multi-city base reflects a band whose ambitions span the breadth of German metal geography.
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.
Sculteus craft atmospheric black metal from the German underground, building immersive compositions that prioritize mood and texture. Emerging in 2024, they bring fresh atmospheric depth to the scene.
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.
Scum Shall Rise unleash death metal, grindcore, and hardcore from Schleswig-Holstein, combining extreme metal's brutality with punk's confrontational energy since 2007. Their nearly two decades of activity have made them fixtures of the North German underground.
Moscow's Scumback deliver groove metal from the Russian capital since 2019. Their name of returning filth channels urban grime into rhythmically heavy compositions of capital-city aggression.
Scumbags blend death metal with hardcore from the Loire Valley city of Tours, fusing extreme metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational energy. Active since 2017, they bring crossover aggression to the Centre-Val de Loire.
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