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Satan's Blood channel black metal from the North Sea port of Emden, drawing on the genre's blasphemous traditions from the windswept coast of East Frisia. Formed in 2020, they bring fresh darkness to the Lower Saxon underground.
Christian black metal band from São Paulo, active since 2000. The band performed at the Zadoque Inaugural Fest on April 29, 2000, captured on VHS by Zadoque Extreme Productions, and the same year circulated the Demo M.M. cassette in approximately 100 copies. In 2018, the band self-released March to Fatality, a digital compilation of tracks drawn from those early underground performances.
Satan's Satyrs is a doom and heavy metal band from Herndon, Virginia, founded in 2009 by multi-instrumentalist Clayton Burgess while still in high school, blending the downtuned psychedelic weight of Electric Wizard with the aggression of Black Flag. The band gained notable recognition when Electric Wizard championed them and invited Burgess to perform at the 2013 Roadburn Festival, eventually leading to Burgess joining Electric Wizard as bassist. After releasing three LPs—Wild Beyond Belief (2012), Die Screaming (2014), and Don't Deliver Us (2015)—the band disbanded in 2019 before Burgess revived the project with a new lineup in 2023.
Death/black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, founded in March 2023 by Black Sin And Damnation, who previously served in Grave Desecrator. Bassist Vitor Giovanni, formerly of Escarnium, joined in September 2023, with drummer Sórtór Impuros completing the lineup. The band released Demo I in 2023 on 33 hand-numbered cassettes via Unpure Records (Poland), then issued the full-length debut Impaled Nazareno in January 2025 through Murder Records (Netherlands).
Satanachist practice black metal from the German underground, channeling anti-religious fury through harsh, uncompromising compositions. Active since 2015, they represent the ongoing vitality of German black metal's most confrontational wing.
Karlstad's Satanarchy thrash with punk influences from the Varmland capital since 2018. Their portmanteau of Satan and anarchy channels infernal chaos into compositions of politically charged aggression.
Satanatics blend black 'n' roll with heavy metal from Saarbrucken, fusing black metal's aggression with the swagger of rock 'n' roll riffing. Their Saarland base places them on the French-German border, drawing from both countries' metal traditions.
Satanaxhia is a Black Metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, active since 2006 and affiliated with The Legion of the Abyss. The band released the demo Bastard Piece of Shit in 2009 and the album Død er du in 2022.
Satanchist are Czech black/thrash/death metal veterans tracing their origins back to 1992 in Prague, making them contemporaries of the first wave of Czech extreme metal. Their decades-long commitment to blasphemous extremity has made them fixtures of the Prague underground.
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