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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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Somnent are an Orlando-based doom/death metal band formed in 2015, merging the crushing slowness of doom metal with death metal's brutality in the tradition of early-nineties pioneers of the style.
Somnol are a Brooklyn-based death metal band formed in 2014, contributing to New York City's enduring tradition of extreme metal with a sound rooted in the direct and aggressive fundamentals of the genre.
Somnolescent are a Louisville, Kentucky doom/death metal band formed in 2014, crafting heavy and suffocating material that draws on the slow, grief-laden qualities of classic doom/death in a city with a strong tradition of heavy underground music.
Somnomballistic are an Everett, Washington death metal band formed in 2017, delivering aggressive and direct extreme metal from the Pacific Northwest's active underground scene.
Son in Curse are a death metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, active since 2002 and released on Melipulli Records. Drawing on themes of philosophy and anti-Christianity, they issued their debut full-length "Trivnviratvm" in 2017, with a comprehensive compilation of earlier material released as "Virtus Deus Maledictus" in 2021.
Son of Cain are a San Diego, California melodic black/death metal band formed in 2016, combining the harmonic sweep and dark atmosphere of melodic black metal with the brutality of death metal in the tradition of Scandinavian melodic extreme metal.
Visby's Son of Earth deliver death metal from the medieval walled city on Gotland since 2014. Their terrestrial-heritage name and origins on Sweden's largest island, surrounded by the Baltic, create a unique island context for extreme metal.
Son of Mourning is a melodic death metal band from Albany, New York, formed in 2007, crafting heavy, harmony-driven compositions in the tradition of Scandinavian-influenced American death metal.
Boras' Son of Sam pair heavy and death metal from the West Swedish textile city since 2017. Named for the notorious serial killer, their true-crime reference channels the darkness of real-world violence into compositions from the Vastergotland industrial heartland.
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