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Jablonica's Satacass pair black and death metal from the small western Slovak village since 2012. Over a decade from the Zahorie region, their enigmatic name has channeled dual-genre darkness from one of Slovakia's most rural settings.
Noise/death metal and grindcore project from Salvador, Bahia, founded by Casthro Mizuhara and later expanded to include Leandro 777. The debut release Apocalyptic Chaos came out on March 5, 2016, an 11-track recording issued in a physical edition limited to 150 copies through Vision of God Records.
Satanchist are Czech black/thrash/death metal veterans tracing their origins back to 1992 in Prague, making them contemporaries of the first wave of Czech extreme metal. Their decades-long commitment to blasphemous extremity has made them fixtures of the Prague underground.
Raw black/death metal band from São Carlos, São Paulo, formed in 2015. They released the four-track debut EP Final Holocaust in April 2015 and followed it with You Will Be Gutted in September 2015, both issued independently with themes centered on Satanism, war, and desecration.
Satanic Torment forge black/death metal from Lahti, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight. Active since 2014, they bring dual-genre torment to the Paijat-Hame scene.
Ultra-limited war metal cult. Releases pressed in runs of 5 to 300 copies, available only directly from the band.
Stromstad's Satanized pair death and black metal from the Norwegian border town since 2011. Over a decade from Sweden's westernmost coast, their infernal transformation name has produced compositions of dual-genre darkness at the Scandinavian crossroads.
Stockholm's Satariel have been evolving from black metal to melodic death metal since 1998. Named for the fallen angel, nearly three decades of capital-city activity have produced one of Stockholm's most enduring extreme metal legacies.
Sati blend melodic death metal with metalcore, combining Scandinavian melodeath's guitar harmonies with the rhythmic punch of modern heavy music. Their German outfit delivers a polished take on the melodic extreme metal crossover.
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