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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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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.
Parma, Ohio's Sanhedrin have been pursuing death metal with no-frills directness since 2015, building in the industrial shadow of Cleveland's storied heavy music history. Their approach favors blunt force over ornamentation — death metal as practiced by a band that has no interest in softening the genre's essential violence.
Brooklyn's Sanhedrin operate in the classic heavy metal tradition, bringing the borough's characteristic sharpness and urban energy to a genre typically associated with either arena bombast or forest grimness since 2015. They're a New York City band at heart — concise, confident, and playing heavy metal with a street-level seriousness.
Samara's Sanheim thrash from the Volga metropolis since 2017. Their Norse-death-realm name and Volga origins channel the afterlife of warriors into compositions of aggressive energy from Russia's aerospace capital.
Pittsburgh's Sanitarium have been delivering traditional heavy metal since 2012 from one of America's great working-class steel cities — a place whose own sonic history in metal runs deep. Their sound honors the genre's classic architecture: riff-forward songs, powerful vocals, and the kind of full-bodied metal that rewards volume.
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