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Sodomizing the Dead is a death/thrash and grindcore band from Lynwood, California, formed in 2014, channeling the abrasive energy of Southern California's extreme metal underground through a punishing crossover of brutality and speed.

Sodomy is a death metal band from San Jose, California, formed in 2019, operating within the Bay Area's legacy of extreme metal with a straightforward approach to crushing, aggressive songwriting.

Soheil Al Fard is a melodic death metal project from Pittsburg, Kansas, formed in 2014, crafting hook-driven compositions that balance melodic sensibility with the aggression of death metal in a largely self-contained operation.

Soilent Green is a New Orleans-based sludge, death metal, and grindcore band with roots going back to the early 1990s, widely regarded as one of the most distinctive acts to emerge from the Crescent City's extreme music underground, fusing the region's murky sludge aesthetic with grindcore brutality and experimental dissonance.

Sojourn in Existence is a progressive black/death metal band from Oregon, formed in 2021, weaving complex compositional structures and introspective themes through a framework of blackened extremity and progressive expansion.

Sokushinbutsu is a grindcore, death metal, and crust punk band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2013, named after the Japanese practice of self-mummification and channeling that extreme dedication into ferociously short, punishing compositions.

Sol Ether is a death metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2022, contributing to the New England extreme metal scene with a straightforward dedication to the genre's core sonic brutality.

Sol Terminus is a blackened death metal band from Columbia, Missouri, formed in 2024, blending the cold ferocity of black metal with the crushing heaviness of death metal in one of the region's newer extreme metal outfits.

Solace and Stable is a technical melodic death metal and metalcore band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2012, merging intricate guitar work and melodic songwriting with the rhythmic intensity of metalcore.

Solace in Black is a death/thrash metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2010, combining the technical ferocity of death metal with thrash's relentless momentum within the Pacific Northwest's long-established extreme metal community.

Solamors is a progressive melodic death metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 2013, building elaborate compositions that move through shifting dynamics and melodic sophistication while maintaining a foundation of genuine death metal intensity.

Solar Cross is a black metal band from New England, formed in 2021, cultivating a cold and austere approach to the genre in keeping with the long tradition of atmospheric and raw black metal emerging from the northeastern United States.

Solar Impulse is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tempe, Arizona, formed in 2013, fusing melodic extremity with metalcore dynamics in the Arizona desert's active heavy music community.

Solar Sailor is a Viking and death metal band from North Carolina, formed in 2024, blending the mythological grandeur of Viking metal with death metal's raw power in one of the state's newest extreme metal projects.

Solar Warden is a black/death metal band from Roswell, New Mexico, formed in 2021, whose name references UFO conspiracy lore and whose sound channels the dark, hostile energy of blackened death metal from an appropriately desolate desert locale.
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