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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Sombras Sobre el Sol are a Laredo, Texas blackened death metal band formed in 2021, drawing on the border city's cultural intensity to deliver a ferocious blend of black metal atmosphere and death metal heaviness.
Sombras y Fuego are a death/thrash/black metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, formed in 2017. They released their debut demo "Tiranía oculta" in 2020, a three-track recording that introduced their aggressive, multi-genre attack.
Sombras y Fuego are a death/thrash/black metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, formed in 2017. They released their debut demo "Tiranía oculta" in 2020, a three-track recording that introduced their aggressive, multi-genre attack.
Sombre Holiday are a Riverbank, California progressive metal band with roots going back to 1994, building a catalog of technically ambitious and melodically rich heavy music over three decades of activity in the Central Valley underground.
Depressive black metal project from the Hainaut province of Wallonia, active since 2022. Their French-language name, meaning "dark memories," signals an introspective, melancholic approach to black metal rooted in personal anguish and emotional desolation.
Somdark is a raw black metal band from Mérida, Venezuela, active since the late 1990s and a former member of the now-dissolved C.M.B. (Cantus Maleficorum Bestiae) Congregation, a collective of Venezuelan underground black metal acts. The band has released a large body of work including Guerreros del Foso, Vltracosmos (2022), Taknara (2022), and Kaos (2025), with themes of strength, nihilism, and heresy running throughout. Their recordings have appeared on Wolfmond Production.
Some Dead Bodies are a Houston, Texas death metal band formed in 2019, adding to the city's robust extreme metal scene with a straightforward and uncompromising approach to the genre.
Something Beautiful are a Chicago, Illinois gothic metal act formed in 2020, blending the dark romanticism and atmospheric density of gothic metal with the heavy musical tradition of Chicago's metal underground.
Scrappy street punk from Houston.
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