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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Somber Blessings are a Danvers, Massachusetts doom/death metal band with roots stretching back to 1995, combining the funereal weight of doom metal with death metal's heaviness in the classic tradition of the genre's New England underground.
Somberlain is a melodic death metal act formed in 2010 whose name pays homage to Dissection's debut record, suggesting a reverence for the darker, more atmospheric end of the melodic death metal spectrum.
Black/death metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, founded in March 2002 by bassist Delano Lima, recording the four-track CD-demo Awakening in the Darkness in June 2002 and the four-track promo Humanity's Funeral in 2005. The band has shared stages with Incantation, Cannibal Corpse, and Krisiun, and performed across northeastern Brazil including Fortaleza, Natal, and São Luís.
Sombra are an Anaheim, California progressive/technical death metal band formed in 2019, pursuing a complex and intricate approach to extreme metal that emphasizes compositional sophistication alongside raw brutality.
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.
Some Dead Bodies are a Houston, Texas death metal band formed in 2019, adding to the city's robust extreme metal scene with a straightforward and uncompromising approach to the genre.
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.
Somnae are a Seattle, Washington melodic death/progressive metal band formed in 2010, combining the harmonic aggression of melodic death metal with progressive compositional approaches that reflect the Pacific Northwest's experimental heavy music tradition.
Novosibirsk's Somnambular Dance deliver melodic death metal from Siberia's largest city since 2015. Their sleepwalking-dance name channels the graceful movements of unconscious wandering into compositions that balance technical precision with Siberian intensity.
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