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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Sonic Brew is a sludge/stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, formed in 2017, cooking up down-tuned, fuzz-drenched riffs from an unlikely corner of the Intermountain West underground.
Sonic Command is a doom/sludge metal band from Delaware, formed in 2025, bringing the dense, slow-moving weight of sludge and doom to the nascent heavy underground of their state.
Sonic Druid is a stoner metal and rock band from Spokane, Washington, formed in 2024, channeling fuzzy, groove-heavy riffs and a desert-rock spirit from the Inland Northwest.
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Sonic Medusa is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010, drawing on the classic traditions of the genre with a sound informed by decades of LA metal history.
Sonic Moon channel psychedelic doom and stoner metal from Aarhus, building cosmic, riff-heavy compositions that orbit between heavy psych and crushing doom. Active since 2017, they bring lunar-influenced heaviness to the Jutland scene.
Sonic Poison blast through grindcore and death metal from Tampere, delivering toxic, short-burst compositions. Active since 2016, they bring venomous sonic intensity to the Pirkanmaa underground.
Sonic Prayer channel drone, doom, and stoner metal from Berlin, building meditative, heavy compositions that transform volume into spiritual experience. Formed in 2019, they bring transcendent heaviness to the capital's vast underground.
Sonic Prophecy is a heavy/power metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah, formed in 2009, delivering anthemic, melodically driven metal with soaring vocals and twin-guitar arrangements.
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