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Sorrowful End is a black metal band from Marietta, Georgia, active since 2012, operating in the underground with a straightforward approach to grim, misanthropic black metal.
Kharkiv's Sorrowful Land pair doom and death metal from the war-affected eastern Ukrainian city since 2023. Their terrain-of-grief name channels the sorrow saturating the landscape of eastern Ukraine into compositions of crushing, emotionally charged heaviness.
Sorrowful Regret is a Maryland depressive black metal project formed in 2019, specializing in the slow, anguished style of DSBM that emphasizes emotional desolation over technical complexity.
Sorrowful Winds channel depressive black metal from the Finnish underground, exploring the genre's most desolate emotional landscapes. Active since 2014, they bring wind-borne grief to the Finnish DSBM scene.
Sorrowing is a Philadelphia post-black metal band formed in 2021, merging the aggression of black metal with the expansive, emotionally textured qualities of atmospheric and post-metal.
SorrowKrude is a black metal and dungeon synth project from Inglewood, California, formed in 2024, combining raw underground black metal with the ambient and fantasy-tinged textures of dungeon synth.
Sorrows End is a Baltimore metalcore band formed in 2025, representing a new wave of the genre emerging from Maryland's active heavy music scene.
Sorrowseed is a Boston band formed in 2012 that weaves together melodic death metal, black metal, and gothic metal into a theatrically dark and melodically ambitious sound, building a steady cult following in the New England metal scene.
Sorrowsend play heavy metal from Gummersbach in the Bergisches Land, delivering classic metal energy from the hills of North Rhine-Westphalia. Emerging in 2025, they channel the melancholy their name implies through traditional metal frameworks.
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