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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Sun Rot is a sludge/doom metal band from Tempe, Arizona, formed in 2019, channeling the punishing heat and decay of the desert Southwest into slow, oppressive riffing and corrosive low-end tone.
Sun Splitter is a Chicago, Illinois sludge/doom and industrial noise outfit formed in 2010 in the Bridgeport neighborhood, fusing the crushing weight of sludge metal with abrasive industrial textures and noise elements.
Sunburster is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sludge/doom/stoner metal band formed in 2012, combining the grime and aggression of sludge with the slow, narcotic groove of stoner and doom.
Sunbëarer is a stoner/doom metal band from Asheville, North Carolina, formed in 2022, contributing to the city's fertile heavy underground scene with fuzz-laden riffs and slow, hypnotic heaviness.
Sunday of the Dead channel doom/death metal from Wurzburg, their name evoking zombie-film imagery through crushing, morbid compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring undead heaviness to the Franconian Main Valley.
Sundyr is a Washington State doom metal project formed in 2025, emerging from the Pacific Northwest's deeply rooted doom and heavy underground scene with a focus on slow, crushing heaviness.
Sunface deliver sludge and doom metal from Helsinki, building crushing compositions with sun-worship imagery. Active since 2016, they bring solar-faced heaviness to the Finnish capital's sludge/doom scene.
Sunfather is a doom/post-metal band from Memphis, Tennessee, formed in 2017, blending the dark emotional weight of doom with the expansive, textured dynamics of post-metal in a sound shaped by the South.
Suffocating Psychedelic Doom / Sludge Metal from Austin.
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