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Doom and stoner metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2014, consisting of Gabriel Martinez on vocals, Gustavo Bueno on guitar, Allan Lordaro on bass, and Alexandre Dantas on drums. The band debuted with the EP Rising Sun on November 10, 2014, containing four tracks: Purple Fog, Forsaken, Black Witch, and Fading Moon.
Shallow Waters blend melodic, post-black, and doom metal from the Basque town of Arrasate-Mondragon, creating an atmospheric hybrid that draws from multiple dark genres. Formed in 2020, they bring Basque depth to the Spanish atmospheric metal scene.
Shalrath is an American solo or small-unit project operating in the crushing overlap of funeral doom, black metal, and death metal — a trio of extreme forms rarely fused with this much deliberate patience since the project's 2013 formation. Their sound moves at glacial tempos with a suffocating atmosphere drawn equally from the void-seeking qualities of each genre.
Olympia, Washington's Shalva take sludge metal into the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of atmospheric heaviness, playing music as grey and waterlogged as the region's winters since 2016. Their sound is dense and unrushed, with the kind of slow-burn weight that rewards patient listeners willing to sit inside the drone.
Shaman Ritual practice black metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling shamanic spiritual traditions through extreme compositions. Active since 2017, they bring Finnish folk mysticism to the central Finnish black metal scene.
Shamane practice black metal from the Black Forest town of Zell im Wiesental, channeling occult themes from one of Germany's most mythologically rich landscapes. Active since 2009, they draw on the region's deep folklore traditions.
Goregrind band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, whose name is taken from the Shamatari tribe depicted in the 1979 film Cannibal Holocaust. The band released a self-titled CDr demo in 2008, produced by Leonardo Chagas and distributed through Terceiro Mundo Chaos, Cauterized Productions, and Vampiria Records; the track Pútridos Corpos Canibais from that demo was included in filmmaker Petter Baiestorf's 2008 film Vadias do Sexo Sangrento.
Siversky's Shamayna merge doom, sludge, and stoner metal from the Leningrad Oblast village since 2021. Their shamanic name and rural origins near Saint Petersburg channel spiritual healing rituals into compositions of multi-layered heaviness.
Atmospheric folk death/black metal project from Blagoevgrad, active since 2003, built around an elaborate fantasy concept depicting an ancient Elven world called "The Wet Lands," with all songs performed in the constructed Elfish language "Tura Ieagan." Their deeply immersive world-building approach sets them apart as one of Bulgaria's most unique extreme metal projects.
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