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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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Grand Rapids stoner metal and rock band formed in 2025, drawing on the fuzzy, riff-heavy tradition of the genre against the backdrop of Michigan's fertile heavy rock scene.
Post-black metal band from São Paulo formed in 2023, with a lineup of Bruno Tortorello on vocals and synths, Jones and Chi on guitars, Luigy on guitar, Breno on bass, and Lucas on drums. The band released their debut track 'Anagnorisis' in March 2023 and operate as an independent, unsigned project.
Sodden is a doom and sludge metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2024, delivering slow, oppressive riffs draped in the heavy, feedback-laden texture characteristic of the American Midwest sludge underground.
Vasteras' Soddus pair melodic groove and death metal from the Vastmanland capital since 2024. Their enigmatic name and central Swedish origins channel undisclosed meaning into freshly-minted compositions of rhythmically driven intensity.
Sodom are thrash metal legends from Gelsenkirchen and one of the "Big Four" of Teutonic thrash alongside Kreator, Destruction, and Tankard. From their raw black/speed metal beginnings through seminal albums like "Agent Orange" and "M-16," they helped define the German thrash sound that influenced countless bands worldwide.
Death/black metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, formed in 2003, with a discography spanning five albums: Sadomazocristo (2005), Renascida em Trevas (2008), Sempiterno Agressor (2011), Mutapestaminação (2016), and Animaligna (2022). The current lineup includes vocalist and bassist Daniel Hate alongside guitarists Samidarish and Seth, with the band signed to Altera Pars Records.
Sodomancy practice black/death metal from the Finnish underground, combining occult divination themes with extreme metal aggression. Active since 2017, they bring profane prophecy to the Finnish extreme scene.
Founded in 2014 by Alexis and Alex Tetin in Maladzyechna, Sodomic Baptism explore themes of metaphysical evil and existential darkness through their death metal. Their discography, spanning from the "Black Fire Pandemonium" EP through 2025's "contra Christum," positions their brutality as a vehicle for philosophical confrontation with the abyss.
Stockholm's Sodomisery merge melodic death and black metal from the Swedish capital since 2017. Their transgression-misery portmanteau channels the suffering born of sin into compositions of darkly melodic capital-city extremity.
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