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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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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.
Stoner/doom metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band released the album Cartago in 2019, a slow, heavy psychedelic record in the tradition of Brazilian stoner and doom metal.
Sandalinas craft melodic progressive metal from Barcelona, building intricate compositions from one of Spain's most culturally vibrant cities. Their Mediterranean base infuses their progressive ambitions with warm, passionate energy.
Petrozavodsk's Sandarmoh pair black, death, and melodic death metal named for the infamous Soviet execution site since 2019. Their Karelian origins and memorial name channel the weight of historical atrocity into extreme compositions.
Perm's Sander-P explore progressive metal from the Ural city since 2016. Their personal-name-derived identity channels individual creative vision into compositions from the western edge of the Ural Mountains.
Sandiablo was a stoner metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring guitarist Claudio Filadoro, vocalist Gabriel Raimondo, bassist Adrian Corrales, and drummer Martín Cipriano. The band recorded a single self-titled EP in 1998 across various studios before dissolving in 1999 when Filadoro joined Los Natas, the seminal Argentine stoner rock group.
Sandness play heavy and thrash metal from Geneva, bringing muscular riffs and aggressive energy rooted in the classic thrash tradition. Their Swiss take on the genre combines tight, punchy arrangements with a raw, no-frills intensity.
Sandokhan grind through short, abrasive bursts from the German underground, channeling grindcore's tradition of maximizing intensity within minimal song lengths. Their output favors raw, chaotic energy over polish.
Reno, Nevada's SandVVitch arrived in 2025 armed with technical death metal's structural complexity and deathcore's visceral impact, assembling a sound that treats both subgenres as a single toolkit. The band's irreverent name belies music built on serious technical chops — dissonant, rhythmically unorthodox, and uninterested in playing it safe.
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