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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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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.
Stockholm's Sadocrush pair black and thrash metal from the Swedish capital since 2020. Their sadomasochistic-destruction name channels the pleasure of annihilation into compositions of aggressive, darkly charged metal.
Sadogmasochist practice black metal from the Czech underground, channeling the genre's darkest impulses through compositions that revel in extremity and provocation. Active since 2013, they maintain a deliberately confrontational presence.
Sadogoat channel black/death metal from the Danish island of Funen, delivering bestial extremity from the town of Glamsbjerg. Emerging in 2025, they bring raw, goat-themed aggression to the Danish underground.
Sadokist forge black/thrash metal from Lahti, combining the atmospheric malevolence of black metal with thrash's breakneck velocity. Formed in 2019, they bring dual-genre fury to the Paijat-Hame underground.
Sadomantik is a death metal band from Viña del Mar, Chile, active since 2021. They released their debut demo in March 2023, a four-track recording with lyrics exploring themes of sadomasochism, occultism, and lust.
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