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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Sótano are a stoner metal band from Santiago, Chile. They released the full-length "El rey máquina" in 2017 and followed it with "El semimuerto" in 2023, building a catalog of heavy, riff-driven material across their career.
Sonambula evolved from death/doom metal into a more death-metal-focused direction from Bilbao, streamlining their sound while maintaining the crushing weight of their origins. Active since 2016, they bring Basque sleepwalking intensity to the Spanish extreme scene.
Veliky Novgorod's Sonma pair drone and doom metal from one of Russia's most ancient cities since 2020. Their Turkish-derived name meaning "extinguishing" channels the slow death of flame into compositions of glacially paced, resonant weight from a city older than Russia itself.
Warsaw's Söver pair death and thrash metal from the Polish capital since 2022. Their accented name and capital-city energy channel modern aggression into compositions of dual-genre force.
Sludge/doom/stoner metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2018 and releasing the debut album Menos Que Nada in February 2024, recorded in Fortaleza and mixed by Rafaum Costa in Mossoró. The five-track record includes the songs Incel, Canivete, Delírio Tropical, Podolatria Militar, and Jesus Hitler.
Søppelskaler is a black/death metal band from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, formed in 2021, whose Danish-inspired name reflects an approach to extreme metal that combines black metal's raw menace with death metal's crushing low-end weight.
Søvnløs is a black/doom metal band from Manizales, Colombia, whose lyrical themes draw on Norse mythology, suicide, and depression. Their debut release, the EP Where Lies the Sorrows, appeared in 2019 and blends black metal with atmospheric and suicidal elements.
Søvnløs is a black/doom metal band from Manizales, Colombia, whose lyrical themes draw on Norse mythology, suicide, and depression. Their debut release, the EP Where Lies the Sorrows, appeared in 2019 and blends black metal with atmospheric and suicidal elements.
Sungehel forge black/death metal from Tallinn, their Estonian-language name adding a local linguistic dimension to their extreme output. Active since 2015, they bring Baltic darkness to the Tallinn underground.
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