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GRAVESIDE CONFESSIONS (2021)
Featured Grindcore Album
An Exposition of Insides (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Somnus Throne are a Los Angeles doom/stoner metal band formed in 2020, conjuring heavy, fuzz-laden riffs and psychedelic weight in the tradition of California's sun-scorched but spiritually dark stoner doom scene.
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.
Sonic Angel is a heavy metal band from Hayward, California, formed in 2004, rooted in the melodic and traditional sensibilities of classic American heavy metal.
Sonic Medusa is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2010, drawing on the classic traditions of the genre with a sound informed by decades of LA metal history.
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.
Sooper Spooki are a California black metal and goregrind project formed in 2020, merging the lo-fi atmospherics of raw black metal with the speed and grotesque imagery of grindcore in a deliberately irreverent package.
Sophia Aurorae are a melodic black metal project from San Luis Obispo, California, formed in 2019, weaving atmospheric and melodic elements into a black metal framework that reflects both the coastal California setting and the Scandinavian genre's influence.
Soraya are a heavy, speed, and thrash metal band from Palmdale, California, formed in 2021, channeling the raw energy of classic 80s metal into a modern context with an emphasis on speed and traditional song structures.
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