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Sundsvall's Setherial have been one of Sweden's formative black metal acts since 1998. Nearly three decades from the Norrland coastal city, they helped establish the Swedish black metal sound alongside peers like Marduk and Dark Funeral.
Sethnefer craft melodic doom/death metal and rock from Oldenburg, blending the emotional weight of doom with melodic accessibility since 2006. Their Egyptian-mythology-inspired name adds an exotic dimension to their North German sound.
Sethqen channel doom/death metal from Dresden, building ponderous, heavy compositions from the Saxon capital. Active since 2012, they bring the crushing deliberation of doom/death to one of eastern Germany's most culturally rich cities.
SETYØURSAILS is a German metalcore and post-hardcore band formed in Cologne in 2017, built around a blend of aggressive screamed vocals and clean melodic passages addressing themes of mental health, resilience, and personal struggle. Their self-produced debut Enough (2018) established the band in the domestic scene before their major-label debut Nightfall (January 2022) on Napalm Records brought them wider recognition with a more polished and expansive sound. A third album Bad Blood (2024) pushed the band's palette further, incorporating rock and pop influences alongside their core metalcore foundation.
Groove metal and hard rock band from Brasília, formed in 2018, whose sound fuses electric riffs with Brazilian folk traditions including baião and maracatu. The band released the EP Mula Sem Cabeça (Paixão Proibida) in December 2018, followed by the twelve-track album Folclórico in April 2019, which draws on Indigenous and Northeastern Brazilian mythology with tracks named after creatures such as Mapinguari and Curupira. Members include Egnaldo Santos on vocals, Felix Mota on guitar, Gregory Xavier on bass, and Julio Cesa on drums.
Seuche ("Plague") deal in black/death metal from Bavaria, channeling pestilential themes through extreme metal aggression. Their name perfectly suits the virulent intensity of their sound.
Seuchen ("Plagues") practice black metal from the German underground, their plural-form pestilence name suggesting an even more widespread contagion of darkness than their near-namesakes. Active since 2020, they channel the genre's most misanthropic impulses.
Named after the French phrase for 'alone in the dark,' this Brest-based project has crafted atmospheric post-black metal since 2022. Seul dans le Noir channels Brittany's windswept coastal melancholy into shimmering tremolo passages and introspective soundscapes.
Marseille's Seules les Mortes, whose name translates to 'only the dead women,' emerged in 2019 with a post-black metal vision steeped in feminist and literary themes. Their compositions layer ethereal textures over black metal's abrasive foundation, reflecting the Mediterranean port city's cultural complexity.
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