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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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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.
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.
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