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One-person black metal project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2017 by Nyktophyllus, who handles all instruments and vocals. The project has released four albums: Eucharistica Maledictio (2017), Gloria Malefica (2020), The Soulstalker (2022, issued through Nekrolust Records), and The Dysangelion (2023), all rooted in a self-described Holocaust Satanic Black Metal aesthetic.
Asheville, North Carolina's Sanctity have pursued melodic thrash metal since 2020 with the kind of deliberate craft that sets them apart from pure aggression acts in the genre. Their Appalachian home gives the project a slightly isolated, self-reliant energy, and the melodic ambition they bring to thrash keeps their sound more dynamic than most.
Heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 and later split up. The band released the EP Autumn in September 2013 through their Bandcamp page, a four-track recording featuring the songs The Underdogs, Autumn, Images of Self Destruction, and Breaking Free.
Sanctuaire deliver heavy metal from Grenoble, channeling classic metal energy from the French Alps. Active since 2014, they bring mountain-sanctuary intensity to the Dauphine metal scene.
Sanctuary is a heavy metal band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1985 by cousins and guitarists Lenny Rutledge and Sean Blosl, with vocalist Warrel Dane among its defining members. The band came to prominence when Dave Mustaine of Megadeth agreed to produce their debut, Refuge Denied (1988), which earned the band significant attention in the power and speed metal community. Their second album Into the Mirror Black (1990) pushed the band toward more progressive territory before label pressure to conform to grunge trends led to their 1992 dissolution; they reunited in 2010 and went on to record new material, though Dane's passing in 2017 cast a shadow over the band's legacy.
Sanctuary of Hate deliver melodic death and thrash metal from Lahti, combining the harmonic sophistication of melodeath with thrash's aggressive velocity. Formed in 2019, they bring hateful sanctuary to the Paijat-Hame extreme scene.
Crushing Heavy / Doom Metal from Houston.
Moscow's Sanctus Foedus explore progressive metal from the Russian capital since 2015. Their Latin name meaning "holy covenant" channels sacred agreements into technically ambitious compositions.
Sanctus Mortum is a death metal band from Sibundoy, Putumayo, Colombia, formed in 2014 in the remote Andean-Amazon foothills. Drawing on the old-school traditions of black and death metal, they released the demo "Oscuridad Eterna" in 2015 and followed it with the live demo "Macabro" in 2021.
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