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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Somnium craft heavy metal with progressive elements from Stuttgart, building compositions that balance traditional metal foundations with cerebral ambition. Active since 2016, their dream-themed Latin name suits their expansive, visionary approach.
Post-black metal project from Ronse in East Flanders, active since 2007, exploring the atmospheric and introspective dimensions of black metal. Their nearly two decades of activity reflect a sustained engagement with the genre's more contemplative side.
Somnol are a Brooklyn-based death metal band formed in 2014, contributing to New York City's enduring tradition of extreme metal with a sound rooted in the direct and aggressive fundamentals of the genre.
Somnolence is an Illinois experimental black metal and ambient project formed in 2018, pushing the genre into unconventional sonic territory by integrating ambient composition and experimental textures alongside black metal's characteristic rawness.
Voronezh's Somnolences craft atmospheric black metal from the Black Earth region since 2020. Their drowsiness-themed name channels the liminal state between waking and sleep into immersive compositions from central Russia.
Odesa's Somnolent have evolved from funeral doom metal to progressive sludge since 2008. Nearly two decades from the Black Sea port, their drowsiness name has channeled the liminal state between consciousness and sleep into compositions of shifting heaviness.
Somnolescent are a Louisville, Kentucky doom/death metal band formed in 2014, crafting heavy and suffocating material that draws on the slow, grief-laden qualities of classic doom/death in a city with a strong tradition of heavy underground music.
Somnomballistic are an Everett, Washington death metal band formed in 2017, delivering aggressive and direct extreme metal from the Pacific Northwest's active underground scene.
Somnuri are a Brooklyn, New York sludge metal trio formed in 2017, channeling the heavy, abrasive energy of sludge metal through a dense and riff-forward approach that has earned them recognition in New York's heavy underground.
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