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Solipsismo is a technical/melodic death metal project from Cuenca, Ecuador, initially active around 2009 before being revived by Daniel Ortega and Gabriel Cuesta, who released the band's debut full-length Sangre Antigua in 2017. The band went on to release three further recordings — the EPs Antología de maldiciones (2018), Festival de la resurrección (2019), and Confession of a Fellow Citizen (2020) — and primarily explores instrumental and anime-influenced themes.
Solipsismo is a technical/melodic death metal project from Cuenca, Ecuador, initially active around 2009 before being revived by Daniel Ortega and Gabriel Cuesta, who released the band's debut full-length Sangre Antigua in 2017. The band went on to release three further recordings — the EPs Antología de maldiciones (2018), Festival de la resurrección (2019), and Confession of a Fellow Citizen (2020) — and primarily explores instrumental and anime-influenced themes.
Doom/black metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, active from 2011 through approximately 2018, releasing two albums: A Sorrowfull Madness of Existence and From the Dark Ages to the Era of Nowhere. The band operated independently and centered their lyrical themes on philosophy, death, and suffering.
Solipsist is a Cleveland, Ohio band formed in 2007 operating across death metal, thrash, groove metal, and metalcore, reflecting the diverse heavy music lineage of the Rust Belt underground scene.
Solipsist is a brutal death metal band from Livermore, California, formed in 2007, delivering the punishing technical heaviness of the brutal death metal subgenre from the Bay Area underground.
Solis Nigri is a black metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2024, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's active black metal underground with a sound rooted in the genre's cold, misanthropic traditions.
Solitarian is a black metal project from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2019, contributing lone, atmospheric black metal to the Texas underground extreme music scene.
Blackened death metal one-man project from Embu das Artes, São Paulo, conceived by Harrison Cadáver, who also participates in Impetuoso Desdém, Ocultismo Etérno, Treblinka, and K.C.U.F. The self-titled debut EP, released in 2014, contains three tracks of black/death metal and was recorded independently.
Solitary Key is a black metal project from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2018, crafting introspective and atmospheric black metal from the central California coast.
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