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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Sunstead craft atmospheric post-metal from Dortmund, building expansive, layered compositions that evoke celestial permanence. Formed in 2024, they bring solar-themed ambience to the Ruhr Valley's growing post-metal landscape.
Suntorn are a brutal death metal and deathcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2016, unleashing punishing down-tuned brutality that combines the hyper-technical slaughter of brutal death metal with the breakdowns and heaviness of deathcore.
Sunuthar play folk metal from Bern, weaving traditional instrumentation and folk melodies into their heavy compositions. Their approach brings a distinctly Swiss-Germanic folk sensibility to the metal framework.
Sunwrecker is a black/doom drone metal project from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, formed in 2019, conjuring suffocating sonic landscapes that draw equally from the desolation of black metal, the glacial weight of doom, and the trance-inducing repetition of drone.
Sunyata is a grindcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2020, whose name references the Buddhist concept of emptiness, delivering blasts of chaotic, high-velocity grindcore from the desert Southwest underground.
Suo (Finnish for "Swamp") practice black metal from Lahti, channeling the marshy, waterlogged landscapes of Finland's interior through their compositions. Active since 2016, they bring bog-dwelling darkness to the Paijat-Hame black metal scene.
Suotana deliver melodic death and power metal from the Arctic city of Rovaniemi, combining the anthemic energy of power metal with melodeath's aggressive edge. Active since 2014, they bring Lapland fire to the Finnish melodic metal landscape.
Supa Scoopa channel stoner metal and rock from the Galician port of Vigo, building riff-heavy compositions from Spain's Atlantic northwest. Active since 2006, they've spent two decades bringing Galician groove to the European stoner scene.
Super Happy Story Time Land is a deathcore and death metal band from Sequim, Washington, formed in 2007, whose deliberately absurdist name belies a genuinely heavy and technically demanding approach to extreme metal.
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