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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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Soerd practice black metal from Tallinn, channeling the genre's harsh intensity from the Estonian capital. Formed in 2023, they bring fresh Nordic-influenced darkness to the Baltic underground.
Soft Shell is a raw black metal and ambient project from Kalamazoo, Michigan, formed in 2021, producing lo-fi, abrasive black metal that merges the primitive rawness of the underground with cold atmospheric textures.
Sogh channel depressive black metal from Lower Saxony, exploring the genre's most anguished emotional depths through raw, despairing compositions. Active since 2013, they bring sustained melancholy to the North German underground.
Soil to Ash fuse speed metal, black metal, and crust punk from Kaiserslautern, creating a volatile crossover that draws from three of heavy music's most aggressive styles. Formed in 2020, they bring chaotic energy to the Rhineland-Palatinate scene.
Sojourn in Existence is a progressive black/death metal band from Oregon, formed in 2021, weaving complex compositional structures and introspective themes through a framework of blackened extremity and progressive expansion.
Sokeus (Finnish for "Blindness") channel black metal from the Finnish underground, exploring themes of unseeing darkness. Formed in 2022, they bring sightless intensity to the Finnish black metal scene.
Tolyatti's Sokkva pair black metal and crust punk from Russia's automotive capital since 2016. Their enigmatic name and factory-city origins channel industrial grit into compositions that merge atmospheric darkness with punk urgency.
Dublin's Sol Axis practice black metal with an astronomical name referencing the sun's axis since 2009. Their approach channels cosmic themes through compositions of atmospheric intensity and measured aggression.
Sol Terminus is a blackened death metal band from Columbia, Missouri, formed in 2024, blending the cold ferocity of black metal with the crushing heaviness of death metal in one of the region's newer extreme metal outfits.
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