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Featured Album
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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Sores for Days are a grindcore band from San Luis Obispo, California, formed in 2023, delivering the short, blasting, aggressive extremity the genre demands from the Central Coast's tight-knit underground scene.
Sorizon are a progressive metal band from Orange County, California, formed in 2009, crafting technically driven, compositionally complex metal in the tradition of the genre's West Coast scene, with an emphasis on dynamic range and instrumental precision.
Sorrow Winter is a California black metal project formed in 2022, delivering cold, minimalist compositions in the tradition of raw, melancholic black metal.
SorrowKrude is a black metal and dungeon synth project from Inglewood, California, formed in 2024, combining raw underground black metal with the ambient and fantasy-tinged textures of dungeon synth.
Soul Broker is a doom and stoner metal band from Oakland, California, formed in 2019, delivering heavy, fuzz-laden riffs and slow, hypnotic grooves characteristic of the Bay Area's rich heavy underground.
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.
Soul Inside is a groove metal and metalcore band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2018. They blend the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal with metalcore's aggressive riffing and dynamic song structures.
Soul Waster is a Los Angeles band formed in 2019 that combines grindcore's ferocity with thrash metal's riff-driven aggression. Their crossover approach channels the raw speed and punk-inflected energy that defines the LA extreme underground.
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