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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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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.
Siete Lagunas is a black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2017 and signed to La Caverna Records. The band released two demos in their first two years of activity — simply titled I (2017) and II (2018) — drawing on themes of nature and Colombian mythology. Their demo tracks incorporate Spanish-language titles referencing natural landscapes and figures from regional folklore.
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.
Sigil Arboreal craft atmospheric black metal from the German underground, their name combining occult symbolism ("sigil") with natural imagery ("arboreal"). Emerging in 2025, they bring a nature-mystic dimension to atmospheric black metal.
Independence, Kansas outfit Sigil Wound carve an unusual intersection between the cold fury of black metal and the fractured time signatures of mathcore, producing dissonant, technically demanding compositions since 2020.
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