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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Solitary Suffering is a blackened death metal project from Chico, California, formed in 2023, fusing the ferocity of death metal with black metal's cold dissonance and nihilistic atmosphere.
Soma Ras are a Sacramento, California band formed in 2012 who fuse blackened death metal with deathcore elements, combining blast-beat intensity and guttural heaviness with the breakdowns and structural extremity associated with modern heavy music.
Sombra are an Anaheim, California progressive/technical death metal band formed in 2019, pursuing a complex and intricate approach to extreme metal that emphasizes compositional sophistication alongside raw brutality.
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.
Son ov Leviathan is a black/death metal band from Temecula, California, formed in 2017, channeling the crushing convergence of death metal brutality and black metal malevolence.
Sons of Chaos is a technical brutal death metal band from Vacaville, California, formed in 2012, delivering punishing, precision-driven extremity rooted in the dense, technical tradition of the American brutal death metal scene.
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 Erosion is a San Diego death metal band formed in 2024, emerging from Southern California's prolific and historically rich death metal underground.
Souls of Dissolution is a black/death metal band from Riverside, California, formed in 2013. They operate in the blackened death territory, combining the tremolo-driven darkness of black metal with death metal's brutal low-end aggression in the Inland Empire underground.
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