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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Linkoping's Sadatron thrash from the Ostergotland capital since 2010. Their cybernetic-sadism name channels mechanized cruelty into over a decade of high-velocity compositions from eastern Sweden.
Saddict combine metalcore with thrash metal from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, blending modern breakdowns with old-school velocity. Formed in 2021, they bring addiction-themed crossover to southwestern France.
Sadistic deliver thrash and black metal from Merzig in the Saarland, combining thrash's velocity with black metal's atmospheric darkness. Their border-region origins inform a sound that draws from multiple strains of German extremity.
Raw blackened speed metal channeling Motorhead and Judas Priest through an extreme metal lens. 'Midnight Assassin' is a nine-track ode to serial killers.
Sadistic Goatmessiah unleash black/thrash metal from North Rhine-Westphalia, channeling blasphemous fury through a volatile fusion of genres. Their provocative name and unrelenting sound place them firmly in the bestial end of the German black/thrash underground.
Thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in October 2018 by Rhodz Costa and Danilo "Angelcorpse" Santojo as a vehicle for old-school 1980s thrash in the vein of Exodus, Destruction, and Necronomicon. The debut album High Voltage Demons was released in October 2019 through Thrash Or Death Records and issued on tape in Chile and the Netherlands; the band followed it with Dehumanizing Process in August 2022, also on Thrash Or Death Records.
Stockholm's Sadocrush pair black and thrash metal from the Swedish capital since 2020. Their sadomasochistic-destruction name channels the pleasure of annihilation into compositions of aggressive, darkly charged metal.
Sadokist forge black/thrash metal from Lahti, combining the atmospheric malevolence of black metal with thrash's breakneck velocity. Formed in 2019, they bring dual-genre fury to the Paijat-Hame underground.
Sadomasochrist forge thrash and black metal from the French overseas territory of Reunion (Sainte-Marie), bringing extreme metal from the Indian Ocean island. Active since 2013, they represent one of the most geographically remote metal acts in the European sphere.
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