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Operating under a name designed to provoke, Semen formed in 2015 and pursue a deliberately crude brand of thrash metal that leans into shock value and aggression in equal measure. Their Bandcamp handle — goatsemen — underscores a commitment to the transgressive, scuzzy end of the genre rather than the polished, technically ambitious side. This is thrash as blunt instrument: fast, ugly, and unapologetically low-brow.
Semen Datura have been channeling black metal from the Ore Mountains since 2005, drawing their name from the hallucinogenic plant genus Datura. Their Saxon mountain base and psychoactive namesake suggest a black metal approach that explores altered states and botanical darkness.
Semihazah is a black metal project from Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in July 2020 by Marbas (guitar and bass) and Zorath (drums), with Temptor Princnegsur on vocals. The band released their debut album "Toteleftaíokláma" on April 27, 2023, a five-track record that established the project in the city's extreme black metal underground.
Formed in 2020 in Rutherford, New Jersey, Semper Tyrannis bring a progressive and melodic sensibility to death metal, threading complex compositional ideas through the aggressive architecture of the genre. Their approach aligns more with the Gothenburg school of melodic death metal but filtered through a progressive lens that values dynamics, harmonic depth, and structural ambition. They're a notably compositionally minded act for a project still in its early years.
Sempervivum (from the succulent plant genus meaning "always alive") forge death and black metal from the Lorraine towns of Blainville-sur-l'Eau and Damelevières. Active since 2015, they bring hardy, unkillable extremity to the eastern French scene.
Sempiternal Suffering formed in 2022 and practice raw black metal in the most stripped-down sense — minimal production, relentless atmosphere, and a deliberate rejection of anything approaching comfort or accessibility. The project's name telegraphs its entire aesthetic program: endless, grinding darkness rendered in buzzing, lo-fi black metal that owes more to the Scandinavian second wave's ugliest corners than to any modern polish. Anonymous by design, the music does all the speaking.
Saint Paul, Minnesota's Semtex formed in 2021 and take an explosive approach to progressive thrash, combining the rhythmic intensity and angular riffing of thrash with the structural ambition and harmonic complexity that progressive metal demands. Named after the plastic explosive, their music favors precision over chaos — tight arrangements, shifting time signatures, and a forward-thinking approach that sets them apart from straightforward thrash revivalism. They reflect the technical ambitions that have been quietly flourishing in the Twin Cities metal scene.
Sen Senie Senči emerged in 2019 from Blairstown, New Jersey — a small town perhaps best known to horror fans as the setting for Friday the 13th — and channel that isolated, rural unease into heavy, grinding sludge metal. The Latvian-inflected name suggests a project thinking beyond conventional boundaries, and their sludge operates in the deliberate, punishment-oriented tradition that rewards patience over immediacy. They're a genuinely idiosyncratic act in a genre not short on them.
Samara's Senamirha deliver death metal from the Volga bend since 2020. Their reversed name and aerospace-capital origins channel inverted perspectives into compositions of extremity from Russia's space-launch city.
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