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Say The Phrase (2022)
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Hands Off She’s Mine (Live) (2021)
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In The Name of Reason (2017)
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Soultrace play melodic heavy metal and hard rock from Baden-Wurttemberg, combining classic metal riffing with accessible rock hooks. Active since 2011, they bring a soulful, melodic dimension to southwestern German heavy music.
Soultrap is a New York thrash metal band formed in 2016. They work in the state's thrash tradition, delivering aggressive riffing and driving tempos in the lineage of East Coast speed and thrash.
Soulwound thrash from the southeastern Finnish town of Anjalankoski/Kouvola, channeling the scarred intensity their wounded name describes. Active since 2016, they bring lacerated aggression to the Kymenlaakso scene.
Sound Barrier is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, active since 2017. They carry on the tradition of melodic, hard-driving American heavy metal rooted in the West Coast scene.
Sound Cancer is a power/thrash metal band from Oceanside, California, formed in 2005, fusing the melodic precision of power metal with the crunching aggression of thrash across two decades of activity.
Sound of Dissent is a thrash metal band formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 2022, channeling the combative energy and political undercurrent that defined thrash metal's formative era into a contemporary Midwestern context.
Sound of Serenity is a Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2009 that combines metalcore's structural intensity with death metal's brutal sonic palette, operating in the space between melody-driven breakdowns and more extreme territory.
Sound of Silence deliver melodic death metal and metalcore from the Asturian city of Gijon, combining Scandinavian melodeath with modern heaviness. Active since 2007, they bring Simon & Garfunkel-referencing intensity to the Cantabrian coast.
Sound Struggle is a progressive metal project led by guitarist Cameron Rasmussen. Its recordings include the self-titled Sound Struggle, Rise and The Bridge, alongside live studio material. Originally associated with Boston, the project is now based in New York.
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