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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Shattering Ice practice black metal from Aarhus, channeling the cold, crystalline fury of their frozen imagery from Denmark's second city. Active since 2014, they bring Nordic winter atmospheres to the Jutland black metal scene.
Sacramento raw black metal project that surfaced in 2024, embracing the deliberately primitive, corrosive production aesthetic of the raw black metal underground with unfiltered menace.
Black metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, formed in 1995 and built around the duo of Lucinaldo Infernal (guitar, bass) and Rufino Hellfire (vocals, drums). The band released the EP Turning the Cross in September 2020 through Gravadora Inferno, featuring instrumentals originally tracked in 2007 with vocals added in 2020.
Sheidim forge black/death metal from Barcelona, drawing their name from Hebrew demonology to fuel their extreme compositions. Active since 2015, they bring Semitic occultism to the Catalan extreme metal scene.
A black metal act out of Russellville, Alabama, Shekinah has been forging a raw and uncompromising sound since 2010, drawing on orthodox black metal traditions with a distinctly American underground sensibility.
Named for Tolkien's monstrous spider, Cleveland's Shelob spins cold, atmospheric black metal with a predatory patience, building dense webs of tremolo and darkness since 2011.
Ankara's Sheltersiege practice black metal from the Turkish capital since 2019. Their name of besieged refuge channels the assault on sanctuary into atmospheric compositions from the Anatolian plateau.
Shemhamforash is a death/black metal band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, formed in 2012. Signed to Concreto Records, the band explores themes of misanthropy, mythology, and Thelema across releases including the full-lengths "Aether" (2015) and "Entropy" (2020).
Shemhamphorash practice black metal from Barcelona, drawing their name from the kabbalistic explicit name of God. Active since 2016, they bring Hebrew mysticism to the Catalan black metal underground.
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