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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Saastunut (Finnish for "Contaminated") practice black metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling the pollution and corruption their name describes. Formed in 2020, they bring tainted darkness to the central Finnish underground.
Saatana, Finnish for 'Satan,' produces black metal from an undisclosed location in Britain, active since 2020. Their Nordic-language name bridges British and Scandinavian black metal traditions through compositions of ritualistic intensity.
Lisbon's Sabbatik Goat practice black metal from the Portuguese capital since 2014. Their sabbath-goat name channels traditional satanic iconography into compositions from one of Europe's oldest capitals.
Sacerdoce channel raw black metal from the French underground, their priestly name ("Priesthood" in French) channeling religious intensity through lo-fi compositions. Active since 2007, they bring ecclesiastical darkness to the French black metal tradition.
Sacerdotum forges black/death metal from the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, active since 2016. Their Latin name, meaning 'of the priests,' adds an ecclesiastical gravity to compositions that subvert religious imagery through extreme sonic violence.
Sacra channel melodic death and black metal from the Rioja region, evolving from their Najera origins to the larger city of Logrono. Emerging in 2025, they bring wine-country extremity to the Spanish melodic extreme scene.
Genoa's Sacradis channel black metal from the Ligurian capital since 2011. Their sound draws from the port city's atmospheric contrast of maritime beauty and gritty urban character.
Sacral Forest craft atmospheric black metal from the Finnish underground, building immersive, woodland-themed compositions. Formed in 2023, they bring sacred forest atmospheres to the Finnish black metal tradition.
Sacrificed Sorcery practice black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2022. Their name of magical arts offered in sacrifice channels the ritual surrender of occult power into compositions of anonymous atmospheric darkness.
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