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Sidewalk Mafia craft gothic and doom metal from Helsinki, combining dark urban themes with crushing heaviness. Formed in 2022, they bring street-level darkness to the Finnish capital's gothic doom scene.
Somma Lombardo's Sidhe blend doom and gothic metal with a name from Irish fairy mythology since their formation. This Lombard act channels Celtic mysticism through a distinctly Italian lens of dark romanticism.
Brutal Technical / Experimental Death Metal from Modesto, California (early); New Braunfels, Texas (later).
St. Louis industrial black metal act formed in 2019, fusing mechanized, electronic textures with black metal's corrosive atmosphere into a cold, confrontational hybrid.
Varese's Sidne deliver gothic metal from the Lombard lakes since 2020. Their sound trades in the atmospheric melancholy and dramatic tension that define gothic metal at its most evocative.
Siebenbürgen formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1994, blending melodic black metal with gothic atmospherics and themes drawn from vampirism, darkness, and Nordic folklore. The band secured a deal with Napalm Records on the strength of their 1996 demo Ungentum Pharelis, leading to their debut album Loreia in 1997. Their third album Delictum marked a shift to English-language lyrics and a more pronounced gothic sensibility, a direction they continued through Darker Designs & Images (2005) and Revelation VI (2008). Active across two periods from 1994 to 2009, they remain a notable entry in the Scandinavian gothic-black metal tradition.
Siech practice black metal from Berlin, channeling the genre's harsh intensity from the German capital. Active since 2011, they've been a persistent voice in Berlin's deep and varied black metal underground.
Los Angeles speed/power metal band formed in 2017, channeling the fist-pumping energy and high-velocity attack of classic speed metal through the city's hard rock tradition.
Kansas City raw black metal and punk hybrid born in 2023, stripping the genre down to its most abrasive and primitive elements with the kind of volatile energy that owes as much to hardcore as to black metal.
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