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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Sorcerer are a Tampa, Florida death/thrash metal band formed in 2011, emerging from the city's storied extreme metal tradition with a sound that combines the aggression of thrash with the brutality of death metal.
Sorcerer are a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania heavy metal band formed in 2011, playing melodic traditional heavy metal with a hard rock edge in a style indebted to classic metal's hook-driven songwriting.
Sorceress are a stoner/doom metal band from Salem, Oregon, formed in 2011, conjuring slow, fuzz-heavy riffs and hazy, lysergic atmosphere in a style that reflects the Pacific Northwest's rich tradition of heavy underground music.
Sorcerous are a Chicago, Illinois black/death metal band formed in 2021, blending the cold ferocity of black metal with death metal's technical brutality in the city's deep underground extreme metal scene.
Sorcery are a Chicago, Illinois heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 2017, drawing from the classic rock-inflected heavy metal tradition with an emphasis on riff-driven songwriting and melodic sensibility.
Sorcery are a black metal band from Providence, Rhode Island, formed in 2017, operating within the New England underground and bringing a raw, cold approach to the genre from one of the region's historically significant metal cities.
Sorcerőt are a heavy and black metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2024, blending the occult swagger of traditional heavy metal with black metal's aggressive edge in a debut that signals a dark, riff-obsessed direction.
Sorcia are a stoner/doom metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2020, delivering slow-churning riffs and psychedelic weight in a style consistent with the Pacific Northwest's longstanding affinity for heavy, haze-soaked music.
Norrkoping's Sordid Blade deliver epic heavy metal from the Ostergotland industrial city since 2021. Their name of a debased weapon channels the corruption of once-noble steel into compositions of heroic, classically inspired traditional metal.
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