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Sequoia Grove blend folk and symphonic metal from Odense, weaving natural imagery and orchestral grandeur into their heavy compositions. Formed in 2023, they bring arboreal elegance to the Funen metal scene.
Five-piece post-metal band from Vienna blending black metal ferocity with post-rock expansiveness, Seqvoia debuted in 2016 with a live demo recorded at Das Bach. Featuring dual guitars and lyrics exploring isolation and spiritual struggle, their sound builds through dynamic shifts between crushing heaviness and atmospheric restraint.
Minneapolis sludge metal outfit Serac have been at work since 2015, channeling the cold, bleak energy of the upper Midwest into slow, crushing riff structures. Their music bears the weight of extended instrumental passages and a commitment to atmosphere that sets them apart within the dense Minneapolis heavy music scene. Named after the unstable ice formations that precede glacier collapse, their sound evokes that same slow-building, inevitable devastation.
Seramenth practice black metal from Helsinki, channeling the genre's dark intensity from the Finnish capital. Formed in 2019, they bring fresh darkness to Helsinki's established black metal scene.
Vienna-based black metal project emerging in 2018, Seraph channels the genre's raw intensity through an Austrian lens. Their work draws on traditional second-wave black metal foundations while engaging with themes of darkness and transcendence.
Birmingham, Alabama act Seraphic Entombment have been crafting suffocating death-doom since 2019, drawing on the genre's most crushing traditions — glacial tempos, cavernous low-end, and an oppressive atmosphere that earns the city's heavy reputation.
Seraphim craft doom/death/gothic metal from Wiesloch in Baden-Wurttemberg, blending angelic imagery with crushing heaviness and dark romanticism. Their triple-genre approach creates a rich, multi-layered sound that draws from each style's strengths.
Hayward, California's Seraphim Defloration deal in the guttural end of brutal death metal, built on punishing rhythms, gurgural vocals, and the kind of relentless sonic violence that has defined the Bay Area's underground extreme metal scene since the band's 2015 formation.
Magadan's Seraphim Project pair heavy and power metal from one of Russia's most remote Far Eastern cities since 2016. Their angelic-science name and Kolyma origins channel divine engineering from the edge of the habitable world.
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