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Solid Feces is a brutal death metal band from Austin, Texas, formed in 2021, delivering the punishing low-end heaviness, guttural vocals, and blastbeat-driven extremity characteristic of the brutal death metal subgenre.
Solidification is a brutal death metal band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2004, bringing over two decades of grinding, technically dense extreme metal to the Midwest underground scene.
Post-black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2015, featuring vocalist Victor Teixeira, guitarist/programmer Vitor Coutinho, and bassist Bruno Rodrigues. The band released the album Avenoir in 2016, drawing comparisons to atmospheric black metal acts such as Alcest and Agalloch.
Soliloque practice black metal from Barcelona, channeling the genre's atmospheric solitude through their Catalan-inflected compositions. Active since 2017, they bring introspective darkness to the Mediterranean black metal scene.
Stockholm's Soliloquium have been crafting melodic doom/death metal from the Swedish capital since 2012. Named for the act of speaking one's thoughts aloud while alone, over a decade of introspective compositions have made them one of Sweden's most thoughtful doom/death projects.
Storvik's Soliloquy deliver death metal from the small Gastrikland village since 2012. Over a decade from one of Sweden's most remote recording locations, their self-addressed-speech name has shaped compositions of isolated extremity.
Solipcyst is a brutal death metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2023, channeling the hyper-aggressive, clinically precise aesthetic of the brutal death metal underground into the Twin Cities extreme music scene.
Solipsis is a melodic death metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2018, drawing on Scandinavian melodic death metal influences while rooting their sound in the New England extreme music underground.
Solipsismo is a technical/melodic death metal project from Cuenca, Ecuador, initially active around 2009 before being revived by Daniel Ortega and Gabriel Cuesta, who released the band's debut full-length Sangre Antigua in 2017. The band went on to release three further recordings — the EPs Antología de maldiciones (2018), Festival de la resurrección (2019), and Confession of a Fellow Citizen (2020) — and primarily explores instrumental and anime-influenced themes.
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