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"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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Sael practice black metal from the Atlantic port of Rochefort-sur-Mer, channeling maritime darkness from the Charente coast. Active since 2018, they bring ocean-influenced extremity to western France.
Porto's Saephe pair death and thrash metal from Portugal's northern capital since 2019. Their enigmatic name and Douro Valley origins channel the granite city's resilience into aggressive dual-genre compositions.
Denver's Saeva occupy a distinctive space in the Rocky Mountain metal underground, blending post-black metal's expansive atmospherics with progressive architecture and genuine black metal menace since 2019. Their music breathes at altitude — sprawling, searching, and capable of pivoting from crystalline ambience into punishing darkness within a single track.
Gothenburg's Saffire explore progressive heavy metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2022. Their gemstone-fire name channels the internal luminescence of precious stones into compositions of technical ambition from the West Coast.
Sagas craft atmospheric and progressive black metal from Heppenheim in Hesse, building expansive compositions that prioritize mood and texture over sheer aggression. Their Biological Radio-affiliated output explores the more cerebral, contemplative corners of black metal.
Sagittari play power/speed metal from Blansko under the Elastic Dreams umbrella, delivering high-energy compositions with galloping rhythms and melodic leads. Their Czech take on the genre draws from the European power metal tradition while maintaining a distinctive identity.
Heavy metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2015 under the name Stormqueen before renaming to Sagittarion in 2017. The band released the five-track EP Reborn in June 2018 as an independent digital release, running twenty-two minutes across tracks including "Scarlet Rose," "Rock 'n' Roll Armageddon," and "Gypsy and the Beast."
A thrash metal band from the Westendorf and Wörgl area of Tyrol, Austria, Sagittarius built their reputation in the regional underground circuit through straightforward, hard-hitting material. The band remains active in the local extreme metal community.
Sagn channel pagan black metal from the Calais/Oye-Plage area of the Pas-de-Calais, drawing on Norse saga traditions from the French side of the English Channel. Formed in 2019, they bring Scandinavian-influenced paganism to the northernmost tip of France.
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