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Sempervivum (from the succulent plant genus meaning "always alive") forge death and black metal from the Lorraine towns of Blainville-sur-l'Eau and Damelevières. Active since 2015, they bring hardy, unkillable extremity to the eastern French scene.
Sempiternal Suffering formed in 2022 and practice raw black metal in the most stripped-down sense — minimal production, relentless atmosphere, and a deliberate rejection of anything approaching comfort or accessibility. The project's name telegraphs its entire aesthetic program: endless, grinding darkness rendered in buzzing, lo-fi black metal that owes more to the Scandinavian second wave's ugliest corners than to any modern polish. Anonymous by design, the music does all the speaking.
Saint Paul, Minnesota's Semtex formed in 2021 and take an explosive approach to progressive thrash, combining the rhythmic intensity and angular riffing of thrash with the structural ambition and harmonic complexity that progressive metal demands. Named after the plastic explosive, their music favors precision over chaos — tight arrangements, shifting time signatures, and a forward-thinking approach that sets them apart from straightforward thrash revivalism. They reflect the technical ambitions that have been quietly flourishing in the Twin Cities metal scene.
Sen Senie Senči emerged in 2019 from Blairstown, New Jersey — a small town perhaps best known to horror fans as the setting for Friday the 13th — and channel that isolated, rural unease into heavy, grinding sludge metal. The Latvian-inflected name suggests a project thinking beyond conventional boundaries, and their sludge operates in the deliberate, punishment-oriented tradition that rewards patience over immediacy. They're a genuinely idiosyncratic act in a genre not short on them.
Samara's Senamirha deliver death metal from the Volga bend since 2020. Their reversed name and aerospace-capital origins channel inverted perspectives into compositions of extremity from Russia's space-launch city.
Istanbul's Sencezium craft funeral doom metal from the Bosphorus metropolis since 2017. Their enigmatic, element-suggesting name channels the slow decay of heavy metals into compositions of glacially paced heaviness from Turkey's transcontinental city.
Rosemead, California's Send Them Sin have been active in the death metal underground since 2013, contributing to the dense and competitive Southern California extreme metal scene with a straightforward, riff-driven approach. Their music sits in the traditional death metal lineage — direct, brutal, and structurally familiar — executed with a commitment to the genre's core values rather than novelty. Over a decade of activity speaks to a resilience and dedication uncommon in the underground.
Sendsirk play heavy metal from the Poitou capital of Poitiers, channeling classic metal energy from one of France's great medieval cities. Emerging in 2025, they bring fresh traditional metal to the Nouvelle-Aquitaine scene.
Black thrash metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2020. They released the five-track EP Ataque Bestial on February 19, 2020, their debut recording.
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