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Black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 2014, featuring vocalist Senapos, guitarist Diogo Rocha, bassist Alex Hiroshima, and drummer Ariel Osodrac. Their debut album No Infinito do Cosmos was released in 2018 through Disastrous Messiah Productions, a Mexican underground black metal label.
Solvent Abuse deal in death metal and grindcore from Berlin, their chemical-huffing name reflecting the toxic intensity of their extreme output. Formed in 2020, they bring caustic aggression to the German capital's underground.
Severodvinsk's Solza Mist craft atmospheric post-black metal from Russia's submarine-building center since 2017. Their tear-mist name and Arctic shipyard origins channel the fog of sorrow over the White Sea into immersive compositions.
Soma Ras are a Sacramento, California band formed in 2012 who fuse blackened death metal with deathcore elements, combining blast-beat intensity and guttural heaviness with the breakdowns and structural extremity associated with modern heavy music.
Somali Yacht Club formed in Lviv, Ukraine in 2010 as a jam-oriented trio before developing into one of Eastern Europe's most celebrated stoner and psychedelic rock acts. Their debut EP Sandsongs (2011) was followed by full-lengths The Sun (2014) and The Sea (2018), each deepening the band's layered approach to hypnotic, riff-driven post-rock and stoner metal. The Space (2022), released through Season of Mist, broadened their international reach significantly. Working from Lviv throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the band continued to record and tour, making their persistence under extraordinary circumstances as notable as their music.
Somatic Decay are a Portland, Oregon death metal band formed in 2022, operating in the direct and visceral tradition of American death metal with an approach that favors unrelenting heaviness and putrid atmosphere.
Somber are a Lansing, Michigan melodic death metal band formed in 2017, channeling the genre's Scandinavian influences into a Midwestern context with an emphasis on melodic guitar work and expressive, heavy songwriting.
Somber are a Cincinnati, Ohio depressive black metal act formed in 2017, crafting bleak and emotionally raw material in the tradition of DSBM, characterized by cold atmospheres and introspective anguish.
Somber Blessings are a Danvers, Massachusetts doom/death metal band with roots stretching back to 1995, combining the funereal weight of doom metal with death metal's heaviness in the classic tradition of the genre's New England underground.
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