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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Sacrifice in Fire deliver symphonic melodic death/thrash metal from Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, layering orchestral elements over aggressive Bavarian metallic fury. Their ambitious genre fusion combines the melodic sweep of symphonic metal with the intensity of death and thrash.
Sacrificed Moloch were a death metal band from Graz, Styria, active from approximately 2002 until their split-up, and remained unsigned throughout their existence. They operated as an independent unit within the Graz extreme metal underground, leaving behind a small catalog of raw death metal recordings.
San Antonio's Sacrificial Possession arrived in 2023 with a black/death metal sound rooted in hostility and ritual darkness — the kind of band that treats genre conventions as a launchpad rather than a ceiling. Their approach fuses the savagery of death metal's low-end brutality with the icy tremolo malevolence of black metal, carving out a uniquely Texan corner of the underground.
Sacrilegion play melodic death metal from Trier, Germany's oldest city, blending Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Rhineland sensibility. Their ancient Roman-founded hometown provides a historically resonant backdrop for their modern extreme metal.
Black/death metal band from Minsk, active since 2018, channeling extreme metal's most blasphemous impulses from the Belarusian capital. Their confrontational name signals an uncompromising approach to the fusion of black and death metal.
Sacrilegious Rite deal in black/death metal from Saarbrucken, channeling the darkest impulses of extreme metal from the French-German border region. Their Saarland base places them at a cultural crossroads between Germanic and Gallic metal traditions.
Angelholm's Sacrilegist pair death and thrash metal from the Skane coast since 2018. Their profaner-of-sacred-things name channels systematic blasphemy into compositions of dual-genre aggression from southern Sweden.
Sacris ritus Vermes ("Sacred Rite of Worms") forge black/death metal from Heidelberg, layering occult Latin nomenclature over aggressive extremity. Their university city origins contrast starkly with the primal savagery of their sound.
Thrash/death metal band from the small Bulgarian town of Berkovitsa, formed in 2024. Their aggressive hybrid channels the energy of both genres from northwestern Bulgaria's mountainous countryside.
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