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Say The Phrase (2022)
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Hands Off She’s Mine (Live) (2021)
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In The Name of Reason (2017)
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Sorrow play heavy metal from the village of Krasonice, proving that traditional metal passion can thrive even in the smallest Czech communities. Their sound channels the timeless appeal of classic heavy metal riffing and melodic hooks.
Sorrow Enthroned are a Hartford, Connecticut black/death metal band formed in 2020, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality in a city with a long history of underground extreme music.
Nizhny Tagil's Sorrow of Rain have been crafting funeral doom metal since 2014. Their name of grief-laden precipitation and origins in the Ural industrial city channel the relentless downpour of sorrow into compositions of glacially paced heaviness.
Sorrow Realm is a Chicago black/death metal band formed in 2017, blending the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the brutality of death metal into a dense, crushing sound.
Sorrow Winter is a California black metal project formed in 2022, delivering cold, minimalist compositions in the tradition of raw, melancholic black metal.
Sorrowcrown is a black metal band from Shenandoah, Virginia, formed in 2024, drawing on the mountainous Appalachian surroundings for a stark and primitive atmospheric approach.
Sorrowed deliver heavy and melodic death metal from Helsinki, combining classic metal foundations with melodeath's emotional intensity. Active since 2012, they bring heartfelt sorrow to the Finnish capital's metal landscape.
Dallas blackened doom/sludge. Crushing, atmospheric heaviness.
Sorrowfrost is a Minnesota raw black metal project formed in 2021, channeling the frigid winters of the upper Midwest into stripped-down, lo-fi black metal with an uncompromising primitive aesthetic.
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