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Sacrilegio are a Thrash/Death Metal band from Colombia, formed in 2006. Releasing their debut demo "Divina tortura" the same year, the band built an anti-Christian lyrical identity and recorded releases through Dark Age Productions during their active years.
Sacrilegio Excelsi is a pagan black metal band from Manizales, Colombia, active since 2010 (originally under the name Sacrilegio). Their sound draws on paganism, mythology, and anti-Christianity, and they released their debut full-length "Apología bafomética" in 2017 followed by "Más allá de los eones" in 2021 on In Darkness Records.
Sacrilegio Excelsi is a pagan black metal band from Manizales, Colombia, active since 2010 (originally under the name Sacrilegio). Their sound draws on paganism, mythology, and anti-Christianity, and they released their debut full-length "Apología bafomética" in 2017 followed by "Más allá de los eones" in 2021 on In Darkness Records.
Sacrilegion play melodic death metal from Trier, Germany's oldest city, blending Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Rhineland sensibility. Their ancient Roman-founded hometown provides a historically resonant backdrop for their modern extreme metal.
Sacrilegious Impalement channel black metal from Lahti, delivering the profane violence their name promises. Active since 2007, they've built a substantial reputation in the Finnish black metal underground for their uncompromising extremity.
Black/death metal band from Minsk, active since 2018, channeling extreme metal's most blasphemous impulses from the Belarusian capital. Their confrontational name signals an uncompromising approach to the fusion of black and death metal.
Sacrilegious Rite deal in black/death metal from Saarbrucken, channeling the darkest impulses of extreme metal from the French-German border region. Their Saarland base places them at a cultural crossroads between Germanic and Gallic metal traditions.
Angelholm's Sacrilegist pair death and thrash metal from the Skane coast since 2018. Their profaner-of-sacred-things name channels systematic blasphemy into compositions of dual-genre aggression from southern Sweden.
Death metal band from Rio Negrinho, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2002 under the name Unholy Empire before adopting the Sacrilegium name. The band released a self-titled demo tape in 2004 and was active through 2011 before returning to activity in 2019. Their lyrical themes centre on blasphemy, death, and decay.
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