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An Austrian black metal project, Sanguinary Trance released the EP "Wine, Song and Sacrifice" in June 2018, issued on pro-manufactured tape in a first edition of fifty copies. Their sound channels the frenetic, riff-dense approach of 1990s black metal while incorporating psychedelic, dissonant passages and intricate structures that evoke Dionysian ritual.
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Sanguineus practice black metal from Hamburg, channeling the genre's cold atmospheres and aggressive intensity from Germany's largest port city. Active since 2009, they've been a consistent presence in the North German black metal underground.
Symphonic gothic metal band from Agudos, São Paulo, featuring soprano Thais Verônica alongside vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Segundo, guitarists Pablo Albergoni and Rafael Silva. The band debuted with the EP Grace And Dread... In Harmony in November 2016, recorded at Midian Studio in Agudos, and released the album Reign in Carnage in 2025.
Speed metal and punk band from Guaianases, São Paulo, formed in 2017 by members performing as A. Sküllcrüshër (guitars), Satanik Ripper (drums and vocals), and Nekrömantical Cörpse (bass). The band released the demo Satanic Killers in 2018 and the EP Cidade Morta in 2019 on Läjä Records, followed by the split Salvete Infernum with Gravedäncer in 2021.
Active in Graz, Styria from 1999 to 2013, Sanguis were one of the more prominent acts in the city's melodically inclined black metal scene, releasing three full-length albums over their career. Their music blended melodic guitar work with classic black metal aggression, drawing on themes ranging from fantasy and occultism in early releases to more personal lyrical territory later.
Columbus, Ohio's Sanguisugabogg have brought a gleefully grotesque, slam-influenced approach to death metal that revels in absurdity and extremity with equal enthusiasm, earning a deal with Century Media Records on the strength of their viral momentum. Their debut 'Tortured Whole' and follow-up 'Homicidal Ecstasy' deliver lurching, downtuned brutality drenched in toilet humor and over-the-top gore, channeling the spirit of early Cannibal Corpse through a distinctly modern, meme-savvy sensibility. Their rapid rise from underground slam oddity to festival headliner reflects the new generation's appetite for death metal that refuses to take itself too seriously.
Minnesota's Sanguivore have been forging blackened sludge and doom since 2019 in the tradition of bands that take the genre's bleakest impulses from both directions — the cold aggression of black metal and the suffocating weight of sludge/doom — and compress them into something genuinely oppressive. The upper Midwest winter lives in their sound.
Uzlovaya's Sangvis pair death, melodic death, and metalcore from the Tula region since 2018. Their Latin blood-name and central Russian origins channel vital fluid into compositions of multi-genre intensity.
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