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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Minnesota's Sanguivore have been forging blackened sludge and doom since 2019 in the tradition of bands that take the genre's bleakest impulses from both directions — the cold aggression of black metal and the suffocating weight of sludge/doom — and compress them into something genuinely oppressive. The upper Midwest winter lives in their sound.
Sanity Obscure craft gothic and doom metal from Franconia, evolving from their Furth origins to their later Hollstadt base while maintaining their focus on dark, brooding heaviness. Their blend of gothic atmospheres with doom's crushing weight creates an immersive sound.
Santa Planta channel stoner and doom metal from Madrid, building riff-heavy compositions with the sacred-plant aesthetics their name suggests. Formed in 2021, they bring herbal heaviness to the Spanish capital's stoner scene.
Santacreu craft doom and post-metal from Barcelona, building expansive, heavy compositions from the Catalan capital. Formed in 2020, they bring Mediterranean atmospheric weight to the Spanish doom/post-metal landscape.
Santo Rostro channel stoner and doom metal from the Andalusian city of Jaen, building olive-oil-country heaviness through fuzzy, riff-driven compositions. Active since 2013, they bring southern Spanish warmth to the European stoner/doom scene.
Sapata forge heavy and doom metal from Tampere, combining classic metal foundations with doom's crushing weight. Active since 2018, they bring shoe-named heaviness to the Pirkanmaa metal scene.
Sarajah practice doom metal from Jyvaskyla, building ponderous, heavy compositions from the central Finnish Lakeland. Formed in 2024, they bring fresh weight to the Finnish doom tradition.
Sarapis channel doom metal from Frydlant nad Ostravici, building ponderous, heavy compositions that draw their name from the Greco-Egyptian deity. Their Moravian-Silesian origins lend a particular weight and atmosphere to their approach to doom.
Boulder, Colorado's Sarcophagus have been mining doom/death metal's mournful depths since 2018, bringing a high-altitude weightiness to a subgenre built on density and grief. The Rocky Mountain setting suits the sound — there's something about thin air and vast silence that maps naturally onto doom/death's slow processions.
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