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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Summoning Hellgates forge black/death metal from Madrid, opening infernal portals through extreme compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring hellish intensity to the Spanish capital's underground.
Summoning Sickness forge epic heavy and doom metal from Aalborg in northern Jutland, combining the grandeur of epic metal with doom's crushing weight. Formed in 2022, they bring spell-casting heaviness to the North Jutland underground.
Summoning the Impaler is a black/death metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2015, blending the savagery of death metal with the cold, atmospheric menace of black metal.
Summoning the Lich is a St. Louis, Missouri outfit formed in 2020 that combines melodic death metal hooks with the crushing breakdowns of deathcore, drawing on fantasy and occult themes in their lyrical world.
Summum Silentium ("Supreme Silence") channel black metal from the Rafzerfeld region, drawing on the genre's contemplative and atmospheric traditions. Their music balances the ferocity of black metal with moments of eerie, meditative stillness.
Sumo Cyco formed in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 2011, co-founded by vocalist Skye Sweetnam — a former Capitol Records solo artist — and guitarist Matt Drake, channeling heavy metal, punk, and electronic music through the fictional lens of 'Cyco City.' Their 2014 debut Lost in Cyco City introduced a high-energy sound indebted to industrial metal and punk rock, and the band won Best Female-Fronted Band at the Toronto Independent Music Awards in 2012. Signed to Napalm Records, they have released four studio albums, most recently Neon Void (2025).
Sumokem is a stoner/doom metal band from Little Rock, Arkansas, formed in 2015, delivering slow, fuzz-drenched riffs and hazy grooves rooted in the Southern heavy rock tradition.
Sumptus Ignis is a progressive death/doom metal band from Key Largo, Florida, formed in 2017, weaving dense, slow-burning compositions that balance mournful doom passages with technical death metal aggression.
Black metal project from Plovdiv, active since 2017, whose name means "twilight" in Bulgarian. Their atmospheric approach draws on the liminal imagery of dusk to fuel compositions poised between light and darkness.
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