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Featured Album
Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Fertile Green (2012)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
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Soulslasher combine death metal with crust punk from Dusseldorf, fusing extreme metal's heaviness with punk's raw, D-beat-driven urgency. Formed in 2021, they bring visceral crossover energy to the Rhine-Ruhr underground.
Soulstain deliver melodic death and power metal from the Finnish underground, combining the harmonic ambition of both genres. Emerging in 2025, they bring indelible stains to the Finnish melodic metal landscape.
SoulSteal craft atmospheric doom/death metal from Nicosia, layering melancholic melodies over crushing, slow-tempo heaviness. Active since 2009, they bring Mediterranean atmosphere to the death/doom tradition.
Soulstream have been crafting avant-garde black/death metal from Helsinki since 1999, pushing beyond conventional extreme metal into experimental territories. Their quarter-century of streaming darkness represents one of the Finnish underground's most enduring experimental voices.
Soulthreat deal in death metal from Chemnitz, channeling extreme aggression from the Saxon industrial city. Formed in 2023, they bring fresh brutality to the eastern German death metal landscape.
Sound of Serenity is a Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2009 that combines metalcore's structural intensity with death metal's brutal sonic palette, operating in the space between melody-driven breakdowns and more extreme territory.
Sound of Silence deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from the Asturian city of Gijon, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness. Active since 2007, they bring Simon & Garfunkel-referencing intensity to the Cantabrian coast.
Soundaker play melodic death metal from Barcelona, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with Catalan musical sensibility. Formed in 2019, they bring fresh melodic intensity to the Mediterranean extreme scene.
Soundedge craft death and doom metal from the Galician port of A Coruna, building heavy compositions from Spain's Atlantic northwest. Formed in 2020, they bring edge-of-the-world heaviness to the Galician metal scene.
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