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Seith deliver melodic doom/death metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, combining sorrowful melodies with crushing heaviness and Nordic-mystic themes. Formed in 2019, they bring the depths of Finnish darkness to their doom/death craft.
Thrash metal band from Pernik, Bulgaria, formed in 2023. Their name's carpe diem philosophy drives an urgent, energetic approach to thrash from a city historically known for its mining industry.
Sejr (Danish for "Victory") practice black metal from Copenhagen, channeling the genre's dark triumph through their compositions. Active since 2014, they bring victorious darkness to the Danish capital's black metal scene.
Sekator deliver thrash metal from Montpellier, channeling aggressive velocity from the Languedoc coast. Active since 2016, they bring pruning-shear intensity to the Mediterranean French thrash scene.
Baltimore folk metal act Sekengard have been fusing metal's heaviness with acoustic folk instrumentation and mythological themes since 2015, carving a niche in a mid-Atlantic scene not particularly known for the genre. Their music trades in the storytelling tradition of folk overlaid with the kind of driving, melodic metal that makes such narratives hit harder.
Death metal band from Wavre in Walloon Brabant, active since 2012, named after the Egyptian goddess of war and destruction. Their brutal approach channels ancient mythological fury through modern extreme metal intensity.
Sektarism are a respected funeral doom metal act from Toulouse, known for their ritualistic, extremely slow-paced compositions that push the genre's boundaries into dark ambient territory. Active since 2008, they've built an international reputation for their uncompromising approach to sonic extremity.
Sekth practice black metal from Lyon, channeling the genre's dark intensity from France's second city. Active since 2016, they bring Rhone Valley darkness to the French black metal scene.
Selaphiel forge brutal death metal from the Cantabrian port of Santander, named after the archangel of prayer in a genre better known for blasphemy. Active since 2015, they bring angelic brutality to the northern Spanish coast.
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