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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Kansas City raw black metal and punk hybrid born in 2023, stripping the genre down to its most abrasive and primitive elements with the kind of volatile energy that owes as much to hardcore as to black metal.
Saint Petersburg's Siege Golem practice raw black metal from the cultural capital since 2021. Their name of animated-stone warfare channels the constructedness of magical defenders into lo-fi compositions.
Siegehammer forge black/death metal from Tarragona on the Catalan coast, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight. Formed in 2023, they bring siege-warfare intensity to the Mediterranean extreme scene.
Sielkanker emerged in 2025 as one of France's newest blackened/symphonic deathcore projects, pairing orchestral grandeur with crushing breakdowns. Their Afrikaans-derived name, meaning 'soul cancer,' signals a thematic preoccupation with psychological torment.
Sieluhaaska (Finnish for "Soul Waste") practice black metal from the Finnish underground, channeling spiritual desolation through raw compositions. Formed in 2021, they bring wasted-soul intensity to the Finnish black metal scene.
Sigh formed in Tokyo in 1989, initially drawing from the Nordic black metal tradition before evolving into one of extreme metal's most unpredictable avant-garde acts. Their debut full-length Scorn Defeat (1993) was released on Euronymous's Deathlike Silence Productions shortly before the label's collapse, and the album's integration of symphonic and black metal elements was years ahead of its time. Subsequent records — particularly Imaginary Sonicscape (2001) — pushed further into surrealism, incorporating jazz, psychedelia, and classical music without losing their extreme metal core. Vocalist and keyboardist Mirai Kawashima has remained the band's constant creative force across more than three decades of continuous activity.
San Diego blackened sludge metal band formed in 2023, fusing black metal's corrosive malice with sludge's thick, punishing low-end into a suffocating and visceral sound.
Verona's Sight merge black metal, death metal, and experimental elements since 2018. Their minimalist name belies an ambitious approach that refuses to be confined within traditional genre boundaries.
Sightless deal in death/black metal from Tampere, channeling extreme aggression without sight through dual-genre compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring blind fury to the Pirkanmaa underground.
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