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Suffocation (band)
Suffocation is an American brutal/technical death metal band formed in the late 1980s in Centereach, Long Island, New York, known for Effigy of the Forgotten (1991), inventing slams, and nine studio albums through Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023).
Suicidal Angels
Suicidal Angels is a Greek thrash metal band from Athens, formed in 2001 by Nick Melissourgos, who has released eight studio albums, most recently Profane Prayer (2024).
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies: Venice, California crossover thrash band founded by Mike Muir (1981), pioneers of thrash crossover with the 1983 debut and 'Institutionalized', two US gold records, active with Muir, Weinman, Pleasants, Tye Trujillo, and Ware.
Suicide Silence
Suicide Silence is an American deathcore band from Riverside, California, formed in 2002, known for the 2007 debut The Cleansing and the 2012 death of vocalist Mitch Lucker.
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) (pronounced "sun") is an American drone metal duo founded in 1998 by Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson, named after the Sunn amplifier brand in homage to Earth. Known for slow droning riffs, 130-plus guitar layers on the 2026 self-titled Sub Pop album, and very loud live shows.
Swedish death metal
Swedish death metal: Swedish extreme metal style born in late-1980s Stockholm around Sunlight Studio's Boss HM-2 chainsaw guitar tone (Entombed, Dismember, Grave, Unleashed) and Gothenburg's melodic death metal (At the Gates, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity), distinct from US Florida death metal.
Symbolic (Death album)
Symbolic (1995) is the sixth studio album by Florida death metal band Death, released on Roadrunner Records. Written by Chuck Schuldiner with Gene Hoglan, Kelly Conlon and Bobby Koelble, recorded at Morrisound, Tampa; intended as the band's final album.
Symphony X
Symphony X is an American progressive metal band formed April 1994 in Middletown, New Jersey, by guitarist Michael Romeo after his The Dark Chapter demo. Known for neoclassical, power, and symphonic elements, albums The Divine Wings of Tragedy, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, and Underworld, and vocalist Russell Allen.
Synestia (band)
Synestia is an American symphonic deathcore band founded in 2020 by Sam Melchior, originally a US–Finland remote project with vocalist Ville Hokkanen, now based in Minneapolis/Raleigh. Releases: Maleficium (2022), The Poetic Edda EP with Disembodied Tyrant (2024), Premonitions EP (2025); independent and active.
System of a Down
System of a Down (S.O.A.D), Armenian-American heavy metal band from Los Angeles: Tankian, Malakian, Odadjian, Dolmayan; four Columbia albums 1998–2005, two 2005 #1 debuts, Armenian genocide activism, no album since Hypnotize.
Tailgunner (band)
Tailgunner is an English heavy metal band conceived in 2018 and launched in January 2022 by bassist Thomas Hewson, identified with the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal.
Tallah
Tallah is an American nu-core band from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, formed by drummer Max Portnoy in 2017, blending nu-metal with metalcore across three concept albums on Earache Records.
Tanzwut
Tanzwut is a German medieval rock band from Berlin, founded in 1997 by members of the Corvus Corax medieval music scene, combining bagpipes and minstrel tradition with heavy guitars and electronics.
Tengkorak
Tengkorak, Indonesian for "Skull", is a grindcore and death metal band from Jakarta formed in 1993, fronted by vocalist M. Hariadi "Ombat" Nasution and sung in Indonesian and English.
Terrorizer
Terrorizer is an American grindcore/death metal band from Los Angeles, formed mid-1980s, named after a Master song. Its 1989 Earache debut World Downfall, produced by Scott Burns, is a grindcore classic; later albums include Darker Days Ahead.
Tesseract (band)
TesseracT is a British progressive metal band formed in Milton Keynes in 2003 by guitarist Acle Kahney, a founding act of the djent movement; albums include One, Altered State, Polaris, Sonder, and War of Being.
Testament (band)
Testament (テスタメント), American thrash metal band from the Bay Area formed as Legacy in 1983, renamed 1986; led by Eric Peterson and Chuck Billy, 14 studio albums from The Legacy (1987) to Para Bellum (2025).
Textures
Textures is a Dutch progressive metal band formed in 2001 near Tilburg, an early European exponent of djent that reunited in 2026 to release the album Genotype.
The Acacia Strain
The Acacia Strain: American deathcore/metalcore band formed 2001 in Massachusetts, fronted by Vincent Bennett; 13 albums on Rise Records, from Continent (2008) to You Are Safe From God Here (2025), plus the 2023 double release Step Into the Light and Failure Will Follow.
The Amity Affliction
The Amity Affliction is an Australian metalcore band formed in Gympie, Queensland in 2002 by Ahren Stringer and Troy Brady, fronted by Joel Birch. Known for Youngbloods (2010), Misery (2018), Not Without My Ghosts (2023), and ninth album House of Cards (2026), its first without Stringer, replaced by Jonny Reeves.
The Black Dahlia Murder (band)
The Black Dahlia Murder is an American melodic death metal band formed in Waterford, Michigan, in 2001, named after the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short.
The Blackout (group)
The Blackout are a Welsh post-hardcore band formed in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, in 2003, whose album Hope reached number 27 in 2011 before a 2015 split and 2022 reunion.
The Cadillac Three
The Cadillac Three are a three-piece southern rock and country band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2011 from the band American Bang and signed to Big Machine Records.
The Dali Thundering Concept
The Dali Thundering Concept, known since 2025 as DALI, is a French progressive metal band from Paris formed in 2010, known for concept albums like Savages (2018).
The Devil Wears Prada (band)
The Devil Wears Prada is an American metalcore band formed in 2005 in Dayton, Ohio, named ironically after the Weisberger novel. Known for Hranica's screams and DePoyster's clean vocals; Plagues, With Roots Above and Branches Below, and Dead Throne.
The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey in 1997, pioneering the genre with its 1999 debut Calculating Infinity.
The Gathering (band)
The Gathering: Dutch atmospheric rock band formed 1989 in Oss, Netherlands; began as death/doom metal, broke through with Mandylion (1995) and singer Anneke van Giersbergen; later led by Silje Wergeland; distinct from namesake events and other bands.
The Ghost Inside (band)
The Ghost Inside: Los Angeles metalcore band formed 2006 as A Dying Dream. Albums from Fury and the Fallen Ones (2008) to Searching for Solace (2024); five-year hiatus after the fatal 2015 El Paso tour bus crash.
The Hu
The Hu: Mongolian folk metal band formed 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, also called hunnu rock, fusing khoomei throat singing, morin khuur, and tovshuur with heavy metal; 2018 viral singles Yuve Yuve Yu and Wolf Totem, albums The Gereg, Rumble of Thunder, Hun.
The Iron Maidens
The Iron Maidens: all-female American Iron Maiden tribute band formed 2001 in Los Angeles, founded from Wrathchild and Phantom Blue members; known for Bruce Chickinson, Nikki McBurrain personas, and albums World's Only Female Tribute to Iron Maiden (2005) and Route 666 (2007).