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Sodomistic Harem practice raw black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2022. Their deliberately transgressive name channels maximum provocation into lo-fi compositions of anonymous darkness.
Black/speed metal band from Rio de Janeiro formed in 1999 by Leatherface (bass) and Warlock (guitar/vocals), releasing four full-lengths: Tales of the Reaper (2004), The Dead Shall Rise to Kill (2007), Jesus Is Not Here Today (2011), and Confessioni di un Cannibale (2016). The band has regularly toured South America and Europe throughout their career.
Sodomizing the Dead is a death/thrash and grindcore band from Lynwood, California, formed in 2014, channeling the abrasive energy of Southern California's extreme metal underground through a punishing crossover of brutality and speed.
Sodomy is a death metal band from San Jose, California, formed in 2019, operating within the Bay Area's legacy of extreme metal with a straightforward approach to crushing, aggressive songwriting.
Black metal and punk band from Rio Grande do Sul, originally a one-man project by Kadu Necro Defunto, who recorded and released the four-track demo Bleed Like a God in December 2022. The self-titled debut album followed in April 2023, with bassist Celtic subsequently joining the lineup.
Thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, with a lineup of drummer John Clay, guitarist Andrei BigHead, and vocalist/bassist Jeffmosh. The band released the demo Evil Thrash Metal on Vyolasyon Dyabolk Records before splitting up.
Soen formed in Stockholm in 2010 around drummer Martin Lopez and vocalist Joel Ekelof, with early attention also tied to bassist Steve Di Giorgio's involvement. Cognitive introduced a progressive metal band interested less in flash than in weight, atmosphere, and emotional control. Tellurian, Lykaia, Lotus, Imperial, and Memorial developed that approach into a distinct voice: spacious guitar figures, heavy but patient riffs, precise drumming, and Ekelof's calm, mournful vocal presence. Soen are often compared to Tool, Opeth, and Katatonia, but the band's catalog is more direct than that shorthand suggests, using progressive structure to intensify songs about power, loss, conflict, and moral unease. The rhythm section is sophisticated, yet the arrangements usually preserve a clear melodic arc, which makes the music accessible without flattening its complexity. Their metal identity comes from the riffs, drum force, and dark harmonic language, while the progressive side comes through pacing and restraint. Soen's best songs feel sculpted rather than jammed, with each heavy section arriving after a controlled buildup and emotional turn.
Soerd practice black metal from Tallinn, channeling the genre's harsh intensity from the Estonian capital. Formed in 2023, they bring fresh Nordic-influenced darkness to the Baltic underground.
Sofa King Killer is a sludge and doom metal band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 2000, blending Southern rock grooves with the suffocating heaviness of the Midwest sludge tradition across more than two decades of activity.
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