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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Somatic Decay are a Portland, Oregon death metal band formed in 2022, operating in the direct and visceral tradition of American death metal with an approach that favors unrelenting heaviness and putrid atmosphere.
Somber are a Lansing, Michigan melodic death metal band formed in 2017, channeling the genre's Scandinavian influences into a Midwestern context with an emphasis on melodic guitar work and expressive, heavy songwriting.
Somber are a Cincinnati, Ohio depressive black metal act formed in 2017, crafting bleak and emotionally raw material in the tradition of DSBM, characterized by cold atmospheres and introspective anguish.
Somber Blessings are a Danvers, Massachusetts doom/death metal band with roots stretching back to 1995, combining the funereal weight of doom metal with death metal's heaviness in the classic tradition of the genre's New England underground.
Somber Ire is a New York depressive black metal project formed in 2018, channeling anguish and desolation through the bleak, minimalist aesthetic that defines the DSBM subgenre.
Somber View practice doom metal from Bottrop in the northern Ruhr Valley, building ponderous, heavy compositions that match their melancholic name. Formed in 2020, they bring slow-burning despair to the Westphalian industrial landscape.
Somberheid channel post-black metal from Girona, blending atmospheric textures with black metal's intensity. Formed in 2019, they bring Catalan somberness to the Spanish post-black metal landscape.
Somberlain is a melodic death metal act formed in 2010 whose name pays homage to Dissection's debut record, suggesting a reverence for the darker, more atmospheric end of the melodic death metal spectrum.
Black/death metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, founded in March 2002 by bassist Delano Lima, recording the four-track CD-demo Awakening in the Darkness in June 2002 and the four-track promo Humanity's Funeral in 2005. The band has shared stages with Incantation, Cannibal Corpse, and Krisiun, and performed across northeastern Brazil including Fortaleza, Natal, and São Luís.
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