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Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal duo formed in 1995 by multi-instrumentalist Lars Are 'Lazare' Nedland and vocalist-guitarist Cornelius Jakhelln, who named the project after an Old Norse word for 'sunset.' The band's first album The Linear Scaffold laid out their framework of black metal fused with experimental and literary influences, while Pills Against the Ageless Ills (2001) — a concept album about a pornographer and a monk — demonstrated the absurdist conceptual ambition that would define subsequent records. In Harmonia Universali (2003) featured lyrics in four languages, each song dedicated to a different historical figure or deity. Solefald have rarely performed live, preferring to exist primarily as a recording project.
Soleilnoir ("Black Sun" in French) craft progressive metal from Frankfurt, building intricate compositions from the Hessian financial capital. Active since 2012, their French-language name adds a Continental elegance to their cerebral approach.
Solemn Eternal is a US funeral doom metal project formed in 2020, crafting slow, crushing compositions characterized by extreme tempo minimalism and an atmosphere of profound grief.
Solemn Lament is a US doom metal project formed in 2021, exploring heavy, despairing soundscapes in the mournful tradition of American doom metal.
Solemn Penitence is a blackened death metal band from Longview, Texas, formed in 2025, merging the ferocity of death metal with the cold, abrasive atmosphere of black metal.
Solemn Promise is a Detroit, Michigan progressive heavy/power metal band formed in 2013, combining melodic power metal songwriting with the compositional complexity of progressive metal in the tradition of the Midwest's heavy music underground.
Solemn Silence practice progressive melodic death metal from the Hessian university city of Marburg, combining technical ambition with the emotional weight of melodeath. Formed in 2023, they bring intellectual depth to the melodic extreme metal tradition.
Solemn Vision is a New York progressive/melodic death metal band formed in 2019, blending technically demanding death metal with melodic hooks and expansive song structures influenced by progressive metal.
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