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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Somnuri are a Brooklyn, New York sludge metal trio formed in 2017, channeling the heavy, abrasive energy of sludge metal through a dense and riff-forward approach that has earned them recognition in New York's heavy underground.
Stockholm's Son of Ruin deliver sludge metal from the Swedish capital since 2008. Nearly two decades of channeling the legacy of destruction through their heritage-of-collapse name into compositions of thick, corrosive heaviness.
Sonic Booze Machine blast through doom, sludge, and hardcore from Berlin, combining crushing heaviness with punk's confrontational energy since 2012. Their booze-fueled name and multi-genre approach channel the chaotic spirit of the Berlin underground.
Sonic Brew is a sludge/stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, formed in 2017, cooking up down-tuned, fuzz-drenched riffs from an unlikely corner of the Intermountain West underground.
Sonic Command is a doom/sludge metal band from Delaware, formed in 2025, bringing the dense, slow-moving weight of sludge and doom to the nascent heavy underground of their state.
Sons of Cain forge doom and sludge metal from Aalborg in northern Jutland, channeling biblical fratricidal themes through crushing compositions. Active since 2018, they bring the weight of the first murder to the North Jutland underground.
Sons of God is a southern/sludge metal band from Douglasville, Georgia, formed in 2015, merging the gritty heaviness of sludge with the swaggering groove sensibility of Southern metal.
Sons of Mourning is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Kansas City, Missouri, formed in 2017, conjuring heavy, grief-laden atmospheres through the slow convergence of all three of metal's most weight-bearing styles.
Sons of Tonatiuh are an Atlanta, Georgia sludge/doom metal band formed in 2010, known for punishing low-tempo riffs and feedback-drenched heaviness that draws on Southern metal traditions while incorporating the slow grind of doom.
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