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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Silent Thoughts channel depressive black metal from the Saxon village of Hilbersdorf, exploring the genre's most introspective and anguished emotional territory. Their rural eastern German base lends an isolated quality to their contemplative darkness.
A Los Angeles black metal project formed in 2025, Silent Thunder operates in ambient black metal territory — the kind of expansive, atmospheric sound that trades raw ferocity for long, immersive passages built more on texture and tension than speed.
Silent Tower fuses black metal's bleakness with doom metal's crushing weight from the Provencal town of Martigues, formed in 2024. Their Mediterranean origins add an unusual geographic context to an otherwise Northern European-influenced sonic palette.
Silent Twilight deal in death metal from Rees on the Lower Rhine, channeling extreme metal aggression from the Dutch-German border region. Active since 2014, they bring brutality to a pastoral stretch of North Rhine-Westphalia.
York, Pennsylvania's Silent Tyrant have been developing a technical take on power and thrash metal since 2020, pushing the melodic ambition of power metal into more technically demanding territory without losing sight of the driving momentum that makes thrash work.
Belgian symphonic metal project active since 2019, crafting orchestral-inflected metal that pairs grandiose arrangements with heavy guitar work. Their sound draws from the European symphonic metal tradition while carving out a distinct identity in Belgium's diverse metal landscape.
Athens, Georgia's Silent Vigil formed in 2024 with a sound anchored in melodic doom/death metal — heavy, grief-saturated riffs underpinned by a genuine sense of melody that gives their darkness a beauty it might otherwise lack.
Manchester, New Hampshire's Silent Violence have been playing thrash and crossover since 2015, bringing a New England DIY ethic to a sound that bridges the pit energy of hardcore crossover with the tighter riffcraft of traditional thrash metal.
Silent Voices have been delivering melodic progressive/power metal from the Ostrobothnian city of Kokkola, combining technical sophistication with anthemic melodies. Active since 2013, they bring cerebral power metal to western Finland.
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