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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
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Scum (2017)
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Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Shadow Cut forge blackened death metal from Helsinki, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight since 2005. Their two decades make them veterans of the Finnish capital's extreme underground.
Shadow Hammer practice black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2016. Their dark-percussion name channels the striking force wielded in shadow into atmospheric compositions of anonymous darkness.
Saint Petersburg's Shadow ov Fenris practice black metal from the cultural capital since 2015. Named for the Norse wolf that devours the sun, their mythological reference channels apocalyptic predation into atmospheric compositions.
Shadow Vortex practice black metal from the German underground, channeling swirling darkness and atmospheric intensity through their compositions. Active since 2017, they bring an almost physical sense of gravitational pull to their music.
Shadowen deliver melodic black metal from Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area, weaving harmonic complexity through black metal's harsh frameworks. Formed in 2019, they bring shadowy elegance to the Finnish capital region.
Novosibirsk's Shadowmoor practice black metal from Siberia's largest city since 2020. Their name of darkened moorland and trans-Ural origins channel the vast emptiness of the Siberian steppe into atmospheric compositions.
Lodi's Shadowolf practice black metal from the Lombard plains since 2014. Their predatory, lupine name channels the wildness that persists in the Po Valley's agricultural flatlands.
Shallow Waters blend melodic, post-black, and doom metal from the Basque town of Arrasate-Mondragon, creating an atmospheric hybrid that draws from multiple dark genres. Formed in 2020, they bring Basque depth to the Spanish atmospheric metal scene.
Shaman Ritual practice black metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling shamanic spiritual traditions through extreme compositions. Active since 2017, they bring Finnish folk mysticism to the central Finnish black metal scene.
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