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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Three Sides of One (2022)
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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.
Sorus is a progressive sludge metal band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, formed in 2016, combining the slow, crushing weight of sludge with the dynamic song structures and technical ambition of progressive metal.
Soselo is a progressive death metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2015, blending intricate compositional structures with the brutality and intensity of death metal.
Soul Giant is a progressive metalcore band from Lafayette, Louisiana, formed in 2023, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness and structure of modern metalcore.
Sound the Sirens is a progressive metal and rock project from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2021, weaving complex arrangements and dynamic shifts drawn from both progressive metal and rock traditions.
Southgate is a Portland, Oregon progressive deathcore band formed in 2009, layering the technical complexity and dynamic ambition of progressive metal atop deathcore's crushing low-end rhythmic foundation.
Sovereignty is a progressive metal band from Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 2019. They pursue elaborate, technically ambitious compositions within a progressive metal framework.
Progressive/technical death metal from Dallas.
Sovver is a Denver, Colorado band formed in 2023 that merges progressive and technical death metal with deathcore, pursuing a dense, technically demanding sound built on shifting time signatures and brutal low-end.
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