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Oh No! (2025)
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diorama (2024)
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Mt.Skull (2018)
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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.
Sonic Prophecy is a heavy/power metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah, formed in 2009, delivering anthemic, melodically driven metal with soaring vocals and twin-guitar arrangements.
Sonic Pulse is a power/thrash metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2012, merging the precision aggression of thrash with the melodic ambition and speed of power metal.
Sonic Rage is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Champaign, Illinois, formed in 2012, occupying the energetic territory between arena-ready hard rock and traditional heavy metal.
Sonic Speculum is a psychedelic doom/stoner metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2001, weaving deep, droning heaviness with trippy, mind-expanding textures drawn from two decades of Southern heavy music.
Blistering Groove / Thrash Metal / Crossover (early); Alternative Metal / Rock (later) from Houston.
Soniq Armada is a melodic industrial/death metal band from Lawrenceville, Georgia, formed in 2016, fusing mechanized industrial textures with death metal aggression and melodic song craft.
Sonja is a Philadelphia-based heavy metal and gothic rock band formed in 2018 by guitarist Melissa Moore, known for moody, riff-driven songs that weave glam and goth influences through a classic metal framework.
Sonolith is a stoner/doom metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada, formed in 2017, delivering heavy, slow-burning riff worship shaped by the arid heat and neon sprawl of the desert Southwest.
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