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Sovnya is a New Jersey black metal and noise project formed in 2021, taking its name from a Slavic polearm and working in harsh, abrasive territory where raw black metal meets noise.
Ljubljana's Sovrag merge blackened death and thrash metal from the Slovenian capital since 2021. Their Slovenian name meaning "enemy" or "adversary" channels the confrontation with hostile forces into compositions of triple-genre aggression.
Sovver is a Denver, Colorado band formed in 2023 that merges progressive and technical death metal with deathcore, pursuing a dense, technically demanding sound built on shifting time signatures and brutal low-end.
Sowbelly is a sludge/doom metal band from Durand, Michigan, active since 2009. They deal in slow, heavy riffs and oppressive atmosphere rooted firmly in the American sludge tradition.
Sowulo is a Dutch neo-folk and dark folk project founded in 2010 by multi-instrumentalist and composer Faber Horbach, who performs and records the project entirely on his own. Drawing on Germanic and Norse pagan traditions, Horbach uses historical instruments — including Irish bouzouki, hammered dulcimer, and nyckelharpa — alongside Anglo-Saxon lyrics to construct immersive ritual soundscapes. The project's discography includes Alvenrad (2013), Sol (2016), Mann (2019), Wurdiz (2022), and Niht (2025), all released through Season of Mist. Sowulo occupies a serious and scholarly corner of the pagan folk spectrum, distinct from the more theatrical approaches common to the genre.
Soylent Green craft progressive metal from the Schleswig-Holstein town of Tellingstedt, their dystopian-film name hinting at conceptual ambitions beyond standard metal fare. Formed in 2022, they bring cerebral intensity to the North German countryside.
Soyuz is a US stoner/doom metal band formed in 2020, named after the Soviet-era spacecraft and exploring the heavy, hypnotic riff territory where fuzzed-out stoner rock meets the weight of doom.
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Space Cadaver is a psychedelic sludge metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, formed in 2017. They channel the city's tradition of swampy, heavy music through hallucinogenic sludge riffs and a warped cosmic aesthetic.
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