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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Something Left Unsaid are a Pacifica, California metalcore band formed in 2012, operating in the Bay Area's active metalcore scene with a sound rooted in melodic aggression and post-hardcore song structures.
Something Weird are a Morehead, Kentucky psychedelic doom/stoner metal band formed in 2019, embracing the heavy, hazy, and hypnotic qualities of the genre from an Appalachian vantage point.
Something Wicked... are a Milwaukee, Wisconsin heavy metal band formed in 2021, carrying on the traditions of classic heavy metal in one of the Midwest's historically fertile scenes for the genre.
SomeVade blend groove and thrash metal from Frankfurt, combining rhythmic heaviness with thrash's aggressive velocity. Active since 2016, they bring a dual-genre approach to the Hessian capital's metal scene.
Somewhere in Nowhere play heavy metal from the Westphalian town of Werne since 2001, their existential name reflecting on the liminal space between presence and absence. Their quarter-century of activity makes them veterans of the North Rhine-Westphalia traditional metal scene.
Somme are a Rochester, New York death metal band formed in 2020, their name invoking the catastrophic World War I battle as a thematic lens for brutal and unrelenting extreme metal.
Saint Petersburg's Somn practice post-black metal from the cultural capital since 2019. Their name derived from the Latin for "sleep" channels the boundary between consciousness and oblivion into atmospheric compositions.
Somn Nesfârsit is a Connecticut depressive black metal project formed in 2024, whose Romanian name meaning "endless sleep" signals an immersive approach to the subgenre's characteristic bleakness and desolate atmosphere.
Somnae are a Seattle, Washington melodic death/progressive metal band formed in 2010, combining the harmonic aggression of melodic death metal with progressive compositional approaches that reflect the Pacific Northwest's experimental heavy music tradition.
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