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Sacred Alien channels the spirit of NWOBHM and classic heavy metal from Manchester, active since 2020. Their retro-minded approach consciously revives the anthemic, twin-guitar sound that defined British metal's golden age in the early 1980s.
Sacred Circle deliver melodic doom/death metal from Helsinki, combining crushing heaviness with circular, ritualistic melodic patterns. Formed in 2020, they bring consecrated weight to the Finnish capital's doom scene.
Blackened thrash metal band from Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, founded in 2019. The band released two recordings in quick succession in 2019: the EP Sound of Violence in August and the EP Killing Tendencies in November, both issued through Thrash or Death Records. Sacred Erazor remains active in the Brazilian underground extreme metal scene.
Sacred Groove craft melodic gothic metal from Kleve on the Dutch-German border, blending dark romantic atmospheres with melodic hooks. Their Lower Rhine origins place them at a cultural crossroads that informs their accessible yet brooding sound.
Sacred Hate deliver deathcore from the Alsatian city of Colmar, combining crushing breakdowns with the contradiction of their name. They bring sacred-profane intensity to the eastern French heavy scene.
Sacred Reich is a thrash metal band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1985 by vocalist and bassist Phil Rind alongside guitarists Wiley Arnett and Jason Rainey. The band established itself as a politically outspoken force in late-1980s thrash with albums such as Ignorance (1987) and the landmark The American Way (1990), the latter credited as one of the earliest groove metal records. After disbanding in 2000 and reuniting in 2006, the band returned to Metal Blade Records and released Awakening in 2019, their first studio album in over two decades.
Sacred Rituals is a death metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2023. The band released their debut EP Cargando Balas in January 2023, followed by the split Al filo del corvo in 2024.
Formed in 2020 in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Sacred Serenity plays progressive death/thrash metal with lyrical themes rooted in religion, spiritualism, and social criticism. Released through Darker Realms Records, their albums "Crossroads" and "Synapse" draw on old-school progressive death traditions while incorporating thrashing intensity.
Sintra's Sacred Sin have been blending death and thrash metal since 2009. Their holy-transgression name and fairy-tale town origins channel the tension between beauty and violence into nearly two decades of compositions.
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