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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Sacroscum blend black metal with crust punk from Memmingen in Bavarian Swabia, creating a filthy, D-beat-driven hybrid that spits on genre purity. Their fusion reflects the ongoing cross-pollination between extreme metal and punk's confrontational energy.
Sacrosodomy practice black metal across Madrid and Bratislava, channeling blasphemous fury through a Spanish-Slovak collaboration. Active since 2017, their cross-continental approach brings unique perspective to European black metal.
Mersin's Sad Black Goat practice black metal from the Mediterranean Turkish port since 2024. Their melancholic-caprine name channels the sorrow of the sabbatic goat into compositions of freshly-minted Anatolian darkness.
Sadastor blend black metal with progressive metal from the French underground, pushing beyond conventional structures since 2001. Their quarter-century career makes them veterans of the French experimental black metal scene.
California's Sadisme has operated since 2018 in the unforgiving terrain of raw black metal, building a catalog defined by primitive production and an unwillingness to soften any edge. The project strips the genre down to its most confrontational elements — hissing tape noise, venomous riffs, and an atmosphere of pure contempt.
Belgian black metal project active since 2017, forging raw, underground extremity from the country's diverse metal landscape. Their output channels the genre's tradition of atmospheric aggression through a distinctly Belgian sensibility.
Sadistic deliver thrash and black metal from Merzig in the Saarland, combining thrash's velocity with black metal's atmospheric darkness. Their border-region origins inform a sound that draws from multiple strains of German extremity.
Raw blackened speed metal channeling Motorhead and Judas Priest through an extreme metal lens. 'Midnight Assassin' is a nine-track ode to serial killers.
Sadistic Goatmessiah unleash black/thrash metal from North Rhine-Westphalia, channeling blasphemous fury through a volatile fusion of genres. Their provocative name and unrelenting sound place them firmly in the bestial end of the German black/thrash underground.
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