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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Sorrow Enthroned are a Hartford, Connecticut black/death metal band formed in 2020, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality in a city with a long history of underground extreme music.
Sorrow Realm is a Chicago black/death metal band formed in 2017, blending the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the brutality of death metal into a dense, crushing sound.
Sorrow Winter is a California black metal project formed in 2022, delivering cold, minimalist compositions in the tradition of raw, melancholic black metal.
Sorrowcrown is a black metal band from Shenandoah, Virginia, formed in 2024, drawing on the mountainous Appalachian surroundings for a stark and primitive atmospheric approach.
Dallas blackened doom/sludge. Crushing, atmospheric heaviness.
Sorrowfrost is a Minnesota raw black metal project formed in 2021, channeling the frigid winters of the upper Midwest into stripped-down, lo-fi black metal with an uncompromising primitive aesthetic.
Sorrowful End is a black metal band from Marietta, Georgia, active since 2012, operating in the underground with a straightforward approach to grim, misanthropic black metal.
Sorrowful Regret is a Maryland depressive black metal project formed in 2019, specializing in the slow, anguished style of DSBM that emphasizes emotional desolation over technical complexity.
Sorrowful Winds channel depressive black metal from the Finnish underground, exploring the genre's most desolate emotional landscapes. Active since 2014, they bring wind-borne grief to the Finnish DSBM scene.
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