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Oh No! (2025)
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diorama (2024)
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Sombras y Fuego are a death/thrash/black metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, formed in 2017. They released their debut demo "Tiranía oculta" in 2020, a three-track recording that introduced their aggressive, multi-genre attack.
Sombre Holiday are a Riverbank, California progressive metal band with roots going back to 1994, building a catalog of technically ambitious and melodically rich heavy music over three decades of activity in the Central Valley underground.
Some Dead Bodies are a Houston, Texas death metal band formed in 2019, adding to the city's robust extreme metal scene with a straightforward and uncompromising approach to the genre.
Something Beautiful are a Chicago, Illinois gothic metal act formed in 2020, blending the dark romanticism and atmospheric density of gothic metal with the heavy musical tradition of Chicago's metal underground.
Scrappy street punk from Houston.
Something Left Unsaid are a Pacifica, California metalcore band formed in 2012, operating in the Bay Area's active metalcore scene with a sound rooted in melodic aggression and post-hardcore song structures.
Something Weird are a Morehead, Kentucky psychedelic doom/stoner metal band formed in 2019, embracing the heavy, hazy, and hypnotic qualities of the genre from an Appalachian vantage point.
Something Wicked... are a Milwaukee, Wisconsin heavy metal band formed in 2021, carrying on the traditions of classic heavy metal in one of the Midwest's historically fertile scenes for the genre.
Somme are a Rochester, New York death metal band formed in 2020, their name invoking the catastrophic World War I battle as a thematic lens for brutal and unrelenting extreme metal.
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