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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Son of Battles is an atmospheric stoner/doom metal project formed in 2021, crafting expansive, heavy compositions that balance the haze of stoner metal with the meditative weight of atmospheric doom.
Son of Cain are a San Diego, California melodic black/death metal band formed in 2016, combining the harmonic sweep and dark atmosphere of melodic black metal with the brutality of death metal in the tradition of Scandinavian melodic extreme metal.
Visby's Son of Earth deliver death metal from the medieval walled city on Gotland since 2014. Their terrestrial-heritage name and origins on Sweden's largest island, surrounded by the Baltic, create a unique island context for extreme metal.
Son of Kush is a melodic black/thrash metal band from Erie, Pennsylvania, formed in 2018, blending the ferocity of thrash riffing with the atmospheric hostility of black metal.
Son of Man is a metalcore band from Pueblo, Colorado, formed in 2013, delivering the genre's characteristic blend of aggressive riffing and melodic structure from the Southern Colorado underground.
Son of Mourning is a melodic death metal band from Albany, New York, formed in 2007, crafting heavy, harmony-driven compositions in the tradition of Scandinavian-influenced American death metal.
Stockholm's Son of Ruin deliver sludge metal from the Swedish capital since 2008. Nearly two decades of channeling the legacy of destruction through their heritage-of-collapse name into compositions of thick, corrosive heaviness.
Boras' Son of Sam pair heavy and death metal from the West Swedish textile city since 2017. Named for the notorious serial killer, their true-crime reference channels the darkness of real-world violence into compositions from the Vastergotland industrial heartland.
Son of Sorrow craft gothic metal and rock from the Andalusian sherry town of Jerez de la Frontera, weaving dark romantic themes through heavy compositions. Active since 2017, they bring flamenco-country melancholy to gothic metal.
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