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Murmansk's Seids play heavy metal from the Arctic port since 2014. Named for the sacred Sámi stone formations, their Kola Peninsula origins channel indigenous Arctic spirituality into traditional metal.
Seidur practice pagan black metal from Turku, drawing their name from the Norse magical tradition of seidr. Formed in 2023, they bring shamanistic practices to the southwestern Finnish black metal scene.
Waco, Texas black metal project Seiobo takes its name from a figure in East Asian mythology and channels that sense of the otherworldly into Texas's growing underground black metal scene since 2023. Operating out of a city not typically associated with the genre, Seiobo represents the kind of geographically unexpected but sonically committed black metal that keeps the genre's underground alive and unpredictable.
Cullman, Alabama death metal act Seishinkage have been operating since 2015 in a part of the Deep South that rarely gets credited for its underground metal activity, delivering the genre's hallmarks — blast beats, low-tuned riffs, guttural vocals — with an authentic commitment to extremity. Their name, drawn from Japanese, reflects the kind of idiosyncratic identity that distinguishes smaller-market metal bands carving their own path.
Seith deliver melodic doom/death metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, combining sorrowful melodies with crushing heaviness and Nordic-mystic themes. Formed in 2019, they bring the depths of Finnish darkness to their doom/death craft.
Thrash metal band from Pernik, Bulgaria, formed in 2023. Their name's carpe diem philosophy drives an urgent, energetic approach to thrash from a city historically known for its mining industry.
Sejr (Danish for "Victory") practice black metal from Copenhagen, channeling the genre's dark triumph through their compositions. Active since 2014, they bring victorious darkness to the Danish capital's black metal scene.
Sekator deliver thrash metal from Montpellier, channeling aggressive velocity from the Languedoc coast. Active since 2016, they bring pruning-shear intensity to the Mediterranean French thrash scene.
Baltimore folk metal act Sekengard have been fusing metal's heaviness with acoustic folk instrumentation and mythological themes since 2015, carving a niche in a mid-Atlantic scene not particularly known for the genre. Their music trades in the storytelling tradition of folk overlaid with the kind of driving, melodic metal that makes such narratives hit harder.
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