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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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Sadistic Sacrament have been practicing black metal from Regensburg since 2013, channeling the genre's darkest traditions from the banks of the Danube. Their Bavarian base connects them to a region with a growing black metal scene.
Sadistic Sacred Whore practice black metal from Bordeaux, channeling blasphemous extremity from France's wine capital. Active since 2018, they bring provocative darkness to the Aquitaine underground.
Filthy Depressive / Post-Black Metal from Oak Park, Illinois (early); Texas (mid); Baltimore, Maryland (later).
Sado Sathanas channel black metal from Dresden, drawing on the genre's blasphemous traditions in the capital of Saxony. Active since 2010, they've been a consistent presence in the eastern German black metal underground.
Stockholm's Sadocrush pair black and thrash metal from the Swedish capital since 2020. Their sadomasochistic-destruction name channels the pleasure of annihilation into compositions of aggressive, darkly charged metal.
Sadogmasochist practice black metal from the Czech underground, channeling the genre's darkest impulses through compositions that revel in extremity and provocation. Active since 2013, they maintain a deliberately confrontational presence.
Sadogoat channel black/death metal from the Danish island of Funen, delivering bestial extremity from the town of Glamsbjerg. Emerging in 2025, they bring raw, goat-themed aggression to the Danish underground.
Sadokist forge black/thrash metal from Lahti, combining the atmospheric malevolence of black metal with thrash's breakneck velocity. Formed in 2019, they bring dual-genre fury to the Paijat-Hame underground.
Sadomasochrist forge thrash and black metal from the French overseas territory of Reunion (Sainte-Marie), bringing extreme metal from the Indian Ocean island. Active since 2013, they represent one of the most geographically remote metal acts in the European sphere.
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