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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Pskov's Sidekut Slave practice black metal from the ancient border city since 2013. Their name and origins at one of Russia's oldest cities channel centuries of frontier conflict into atmospheric compositions.
Siech practice black metal from Berlin, channeling the genre's harsh intensity from the German capital. Active since 2011, they've been a persistent voice in Berlin's deep and varied black metal underground.
Saint Petersburg's Siege Golem practice raw black metal from the cultural capital since 2021. Their name of animated-stone warfare channels the constructedness of magical defenders into lo-fi compositions.
Siegehammer forge black/death metal from Tarragona on the Catalan coast, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight. Formed in 2023, they bring siege-warfare intensity to the Mediterranean extreme scene.
Sielkanker emerged in 2025 as one of France's newest blackened/symphonic deathcore projects, pairing orchestral grandeur with crushing breakdowns. Their Afrikaans-derived name, meaning 'soul cancer,' signals a thematic preoccupation with psychological torment.
Sieluhaaska (Finnish for "Soul Waste") practice black metal from the Finnish underground, channeling spiritual desolation through raw compositions. Formed in 2021, they bring wasted-soul intensity to the Finnish black metal scene.
Verona's Sight merge black metal, death metal, and experimental elements since 2018. Their minimalist name belies an ambitious approach that refuses to be confined within traditional genre boundaries.
Sightless deal in death/black metal from Tampere, channeling extreme aggression without sight through dual-genre compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring blind fury to the Pirkanmaa underground.
Sigil Arboreal craft atmospheric black metal from the German underground, their name combining occult symbolism ("sigil") with natural imagery ("arboreal"). Emerging in 2025, they bring a nature-mystic dimension to atmospheric black metal.
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