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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Somberheid channel post-black metal from Girona, blending atmospheric textures with black metal's intensity. Formed in 2019, they bring Catalan somberness to the Spanish post-black metal landscape.
Sombras Sobre el Sol are a Laredo, Texas blackened death metal band formed in 2021, drawing on the border city's cultural intensity to deliver a ferocious blend of black metal atmosphere and death metal heaviness.
Depressive black metal project from the Hainaut province of Wallonia, active since 2022. Their French-language name, meaning "dark memories," signals an introspective, melancholic approach to black metal rooted in personal anguish and emotional desolation.
Somme are a Rochester, New York death metal band formed in 2020, their name invoking the catastrophic World War I battle as a thematic lens for brutal and unrelenting extreme metal.
Saint Petersburg's Somn practice post-black metal from the cultural capital since 2019. Their name derived from the Latin for "sleep" channels the boundary between consciousness and oblivion into atmospheric compositions.
Somn Nesfârsit is a Connecticut depressive black metal project formed in 2024, whose Romanian name meaning "endless sleep" signals an immersive approach to the subgenre's characteristic bleakness and desolate atmosphere.
Krasnodar's Somnambula craft depressive post-black metal and dungeon synth from the Kuban capital since 2017. Their sleepwalker name channels the unconscious movements of nocturnal wandering into compositions of dreamlike, southern Russian darkness.
Somnambulistic Nightmare is a Fort Wayne, Indiana raw black metal and dark ambient project formed in 2022, pairing the abrasive primitivity of raw black metal with the disorienting stillness of dark ambient to evoke states of waking dread.
Somniac is a US black metal project active since 2011, working in the broader traditions of the genre with a deliberately obscure and underground-oriented approach.
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