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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
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Soul Conversion is a death metal band from West Haven, Connecticut, formed in 2016, contributing straight-ahead, aggressive death metal to the New England underground scene.
Soul Crusher is a heavy and power metal band from Attleboro, Massachusetts, formed in 2022, delivering traditional metal forged from strong riffs and melodic vocal power in the Boston metro area's metal community.
Soul Dealer deliver heavy and thrash metal from Granollers near Barcelona, combining classic metal riffing with thrash's aggressive velocity. Active since 2014, they bring soul-trading intensity to the Catalan metal scene.
Soul Debt is a death metal and deathcore band from Montclair, New Jersey, formed in 2021, merging the brutality of death metal with the breakdowns and modern heaviness of deathcore.
Soul Demise traces its origins to Neumarkt, Bavaria, Germany in 1993 under the name Inhuman, before adopting the current name in 1998. The band's melodic death metal sound is rooted in the Gothenburg school, particularly the influence of At the Gates, filtered through a German perspective. Their debut Beyond Human Perception (2000) was followed by Blind (2005) and Acts of Hate (2009), with the band building their reputation through tours alongside Napalm Death, Immolation, and Dismember. Against the Abyss, released in 2025, marks the band's return after an extended hiatus.
Soul Deprived is a melodic death metal and djent band formed in 2022, fusing the Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal tradition with the rhythmic complexity and polyrhythmic textures of djent.
Death metal band from São Fidélis, Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2005 with anti-religion lyrical themes. The band released the promotional demo Worms of Purity in 2006 before changing their name to Harmony Hate.
Soul Devourment is a Los Angeles death metal band formed in 2020, adding to the city's historically significant death metal underground with a direct, punishing approach to the genre.
Soul Dispatch is a depressive black metal project from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2023, exploring the introspective, anguished end of the DSBM spectrum against the backdrop of the desert Southwest.
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