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Tolyatti's Shadar Logoth practice black metal named for the Wheel of Time cursed city since 2006. Two decades from Russia's automotive capital channel literary-fantasy darkness into atmospheric compositions.
Shaddai have been practicing black metal from Montreux since 1999, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Swiss black metal underground. Their decades of activity have produced a body of work steeped in darkness and the cold tradition of European black metal.
Umea's Shade of Black practice black metal from the northern Swedish university city since 2011. Over a decade from the Vasterbotten capital, their tonal-darkness name has shaped atmospheric compositions.
Shades of Extinction practice black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2023. Their name of varied dying-out channels the multiple colors of annihilation into compositions of anonymous atmospheric darkness.
Black metal band from Marília, São Paulo, active since 2000, built around the core of Lord Sabbaoth on vocals, Blasphemia Rakshasa on guitar, and Agressos Dirae on drums. The band operates independently and released a self-titled album on May 29, 2014, with lyrical themes centered on Satanism.
Shadow Cut forge blackened death metal from Helsinki, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight since 2005. Their two decades make them veterans of the Finnish capital's extreme underground.
Out of Branford, Connecticut, Shadow Division have been carving a path through raw black metal since 2017, favoring the cold and abrasive over any atmospheric softening. Their Bandcamp output reflects a band committed to the stripped-down, confrontational end of the genre.
Shadow Hammer practice black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2016. Their dark-percussion name channels the striking force wielded in shadow into atmospheric compositions of anonymous darkness.
Formed in Pittsburgh in 2023, Shadow Legion weld black metal's icy hostility to death metal's technical brutality, staking out territory in a city with deep extreme metal roots. Still early in their existence, they bring urgency and a raw hunger to the blackened death genre.
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