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Black metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, operating in the unblack (Christian black metal) tradition and described as one of the most extreme anti-Satanic voices in the Brazilian underground. The band released the album Pure Holocaust of Armaggedom through Kongsblod Records, a six-track record with a bonus demo rehearsal track, and contributed material to the Underblood Fest Collection Vol. 1 compilation.
Soterios is a metalcore band from Fayetteville, North Carolina, formed in 2012, part of the active metal scene that has developed around the Fort Bragg area and surrounding communities.
Sothoros is a death metal band from Athens, Ohio, formed in 2010, crafting punishing and straightforward death metal within a small-city underground scene built around Ohio University.
Donetsk's Sotos thrash from the conflict-zone city since 2012. Over a decade from the war-affected Donbas capital, their enigmatic name has channeled the intensity of survival into compositions of sustained aggression.
Stockholm's Soturi pair melodic death metal and metalcore from the Swedish capital since 2024. Their Finnish name meaning "warrior" channels the martial spirit of Scandinavia's eastern neighbor into compositions of freshly-minted, melodically aggressive metal.
One-man depressive black metal project from Santa Catarina, Brazil, operating within the Brazilian DSBM underground. The project has released the albums Onde Está Minha Depressão and Quintessência, and contributed the track Decomposição to the DSBM Brazil compilation Depressivos Hinos Suicidas Vol. I – Todos Os Caminhos Te Levam a Morte, released in March 2023.
Post-black metal solo project from Osasco, São Paulo, created and performed entirely by Douglas Sinsuk, who also records under the projects Whore Illusion, Bärkdum, Deadleaf, and Ruínas De R'lyeh. Sinsuk released two albums in 2018 under the Soturno name — The Void Inside and Morgana's Tale — before the project went inactive.
Gothic death metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, formed in January 2000. The band released the debut demo Poems of Love… Poems of Pain… in 2001, followed by the debut full-length When Flesh Becomes Spirit in 2007, produced by Marcello Pompeu and Heros Trech (Korzus) with artwork by Gustavo Sazes, and the second album Of Everything That Hurts in 2013 on Eternal Hatred Records. The current lineup includes vocalist Rodrigo Barbosa, guitarist Andrei Targino, and drummer Eduardo Vieira.
Souflikar is a thrash/death metal band from Elmhurst, Illinois, formed in 2015, driving aggressive, riff-forward metal from the suburban Chicago underground.
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