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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Raw blackened speed metal channeling Motorhead and Judas Priest through an extreme metal lens. 'Midnight Assassin' is a nine-track ode to serial killers.
Sadistic Goatmessiah unleash black/thrash metal from North Rhine-Westphalia, channeling blasphemous fury through a volatile fusion of genres. Their provocative name and unrelenting sound place them firmly in the bestial end of the German black/thrash underground.
Thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in October 2018 by Rhodz Costa and Danilo "Angelcorpse" Santojo as a vehicle for old-school 1980s thrash in the vein of Exodus, Destruction, and Necronomicon. The debut album High Voltage Demons was released in October 2019 through Thrash Or Death Records and issued on tape in Chile and the Netherlands; the band followed it with Dehumanizing Process in August 2022, also on Thrash Or Death Records.
Sadistic Sacrament have been practicing black metal from Regensburg since 2013, channeling the genre's darkest traditions from the banks of the Danube. Their Bavarian base connects them to a region with a growing black metal scene.
Sadistic Sacred Whore practice black metal from Bordeaux, channeling blasphemous extremity from France's wine capital. Active since 2018, they bring provocative darkness to the Aquitaine underground.
Sadistik Forest deal in death metal from Oulu in northern Finland, channeling the dark, vast forests of their subarctic home region into crushing compositions. Active since 2018, they bring the endless night of the north to their extreme metal.
Sadmarkyl deliver groove metal from the Auvergne city of Clermont-Ferrand, channeling rhythmic heaviness from the volcanic heart of France. Active since 2015, they bring Massif Central groove to the French metal scene.
Filthy Depressive / Post-Black Metal from Oak Park, Illinois (early); Texas (mid); Baltimore, Maryland (later).
Sado Sathanas channel black metal from Dresden, drawing on the genre's blasphemous traditions in the capital of Saxony. Active since 2010, they've been a consistent presence in the eastern German black metal underground.
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