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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Austin death metal outfit Sigil have been grinding out punishing, riff-forward heaviness since 2015, drawing on the city's underground tradition of brutal, no-frills extremity.
Sigil Arboreal craft atmospheric black metal from the German underground, their name combining occult symbolism ("sigil") with natural imagery ("arboreal"). Emerging in 2025, they bring a nature-mystic dimension to atmospheric black metal.
Formed in 2024, Sigil of Despair blend the gut-punch rhythmic breakdowns of deathcore with the visceral brutality of straight death metal, a newer act pushing aggression to its limit.
Independence, Kansas outfit Sigil Wound carve an unusual intersection between the cold fury of black metal and the fractured time signatures of mathcore, producing dissonant, technically demanding compositions since 2020.
Sigillum Diabolicum conjures black metal from Clermont-Ferrand, the volcanic heartland of central France, active since 2010. Their name, Latin for 'seal of the devil,' anchors an occult-themed approach to raw, uncompromising black metal.
New York doom metal act Sigils have cultivated a slow, oppressive heaviness since 2013, leaning into the genre's tradition of crushing tempos and bleak atmosphere.
Sigir deliver melodic death metal from the tiny central Finnish village of Vesanto, combining Scandinavian melodeath with small-town Finnish authenticity. Formed in 2023, they bring lakeland intensity to the Finnish melodeath scene.
Los Angeles-based Siglos fuse the mechanical pulse of industrial metal with thick groove-oriented riffing, a combination that gives their sound an abrasive, rhythmically locked character since their 2022 formation.
Milan's Sigma deliver power metal from Italy's largest city since 2006. Two decades of persistence have produced a sound built on the genre's most uplifting and technically demanding traditions.
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