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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Solecism is a Chicago, Illinois progressive melodic death metal band formed in 2013, weaving together intricate song structures, technical death metal intensity, and melody-driven arrangements drawn from the Scandinavian melodic death tradition.
Solemn Penitence is a blackened death metal band from Longview, Texas, formed in 2025, merging the ferocity of death metal with the cold, abrasive atmosphere of black metal.
Solemn Silence practice progressive melodic death metal from the Hessian university city of Marburg, combining technical ambition with the emotional weight of melodeath. Formed in 2023, they bring intellectual depth to the melodic extreme metal tradition.
Solemn Vision is a New York progressive/melodic death metal band formed in 2019, blending technically demanding death metal with melodic hooks and expansive song structures influenced by progressive metal.
Solephemeros is a US death/black metal project formed in 2025, operating at the intersection of death metal brutality and black metal atmosphere in the American underground extreme metal tradition.
Death metal/hardcore crossover band from Roeselare in West Flanders, active since 2017. Their fusion of death metal's technical extremity with hardcore's raw intensity creates a punishing sound from one of Flanders' mid-sized industrial cities.
Solid Feces is a brutal death metal band from Austin, Texas, formed in 2021, delivering the punishing low-end heaviness, guttural vocals, and blastbeat-driven extremity characteristic of the brutal death metal subgenre.
Solidification is a brutal death metal band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2004, bringing over two decades of grinding, technically dense extreme metal to the Midwest underground scene.
Stockholm's Soliloquium have been crafting melodic doom/death metal from the Swedish capital since 2012. Named for the act of speaking one's thoughts aloud while alone, over a decade of introspective compositions have made them one of Sweden's most thoughtful doom/death projects.
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