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Solar Haze Experience fuse black metal with stoner metal and rock from Pfronten in the Bavarian Alps, creating a psychedelic-tinged extreme hybrid that draws from both ends of the metal spectrum. Their Alpine origins add a cosmic, mountaintop perspective to their hazy extremity.
Solar Impulse is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tempe, Arizona, formed in 2013, fusing melodic extremity with metalcore dynamics in the Arizona desert's active heavy music community.
Solar Inferno channel melodic death and black metal from Leipzig, combining the harmonic sophistication of melodeath with the atmospheric intensity of black metal. Formed in 2023, they bring stellar-themed extremity to Saxony's cultural capital.
Solar Monolith is a stoner and doom metal band from Warren, Michigan, formed in 2023, generating massive, slow-rolling riffs shaped by the Midwest's tradition of heavy, grounded musical heaviness.
Solar Sailor is a Viking and death metal band from North Carolina, formed in 2024, blending the mythological grandeur of Viking metal with death metal's raw power in one of the state's newest extreme metal projects.
Solar Spine blend progressive rock, gothic/death metal, and doom from the gemstone-cutting town of Idar-Oberstein in the Hunsruck mountains. Active since 2008, their genre-spanning approach creates a multi-faceted sound that reflects the geological diversity of their surroundings.
Solar Warden is a black/death metal band from Roswell, New Mexico, formed in 2021, whose name references UFO conspiracy lore and whose sound channels the dark, hostile energy of blackened death metal from an appropriately desolate desert locale.
Blagoveshchensk's Solar Wind explore progressive metal from Russia's Far Eastern border with China since 2016. Their cosmic-phenomenon name and origins on the Amur River, directly across from the Chinese city of Heihe, make them one of Russia's most geographically distinctive progressive acts.
Solar X deliver heavy metal and hard rock from Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest, channeling classic metal energy from the southwestern German highlands. Their cosmic name suggests anthemic, star-gazing compositions.
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