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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Blood Eagle (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Solacide craft progressive black metal from Lahti, pushing beyond conventional black metal structures into more complex, layered territories. Active since 2013, they bring consolation-killing progressivism to the Paijat-Hame scene.
Solae practice black metal from Nuremberg, emerging in 2025 as one of the newest voices in Franconia's established black metal scene. Their solar-themed name provides an unusual contrast to the genre's typically dark imagery.
Solar Cross is a black metal band from New England, formed in 2021, cultivating a cold and austere approach to the genre in keeping with the long tradition of atmospheric and raw black metal emerging from the northeastern United States.
Solar Haze Experience fuse black metal with stoner metal and rock from Pfronten in the Bavarian Alps, creating a psychedelic-tinged extreme hybrid that draws from both ends of the metal spectrum. Their Alpine origins add a cosmic, mountaintop perspective to their hazy extremity.
Solar Inferno channel melodic death and black metal from Leipzig, combining the harmonic sophistication of melodeath with the atmospheric intensity of black metal. Formed in 2023, they bring stellar-themed extremity to Saxony's cultural capital.
Solar Warden is a black/death metal band from Roswell, New Mexico, formed in 2021, whose name references UFO conspiracy lore and whose sound channels the dark, hostile energy of blackened death metal from an appropriately desolate desert locale.
Smolensk's Solarmace craft atmospheric post-black metal from the historic western Russian city since 2024. Their sun-weapon name and origins at a city that has withstood centuries of invasion channel radiant violence into compositions of atmospheric beauty.
Solarward craft melodic black metal from Minsk with albums like "How To Survive A Rainout" and "As The Sky Stares Down," balancing tremolo-picked intensity with expansive melodic passages. Active since 2009, they bring an atmospheric, introspective dimension to Belarusian black metal.
Solbrud practice black metal from Copenhagen, crafting immersive, atmospheric compositions that have earned them widespread acclaim in the Danish and international underground. Active since 2012, they've become one of Copenhagen's most important black metal acts, known for their expansive, emotionally powerful sound.
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