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Colmar, FR · 2026–present · active
Sacred Hate deliver deathcore from the Alsatian city of Colmar, combining crushing breakdowns with the contradiction of their name. They bring sacred-profane intensity to the eastern French heavy scene.
Ried im Innkreis, AT · 2011–present · active
Formed in 2020 in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Sacred Serenity plays progressive death/thrash metal with lyrical themes rooted in religion, spiritualism, and social criticism. Released through Darker Realms Records, their albums "Crossroads" and "Synapse" draw on old-school progressive death traditions while incorporating thrashing intensity.
Sintra, PT · 2009–present · active
Sintra's Sacred Sin have been blending death and thrash metal since 2009. Their holy-transgression name and fairy-tale town origins channel the tension between beauty and violence into nearly two decades of compositions.
Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, DE · 2019–present · active
Sacrifice in Fire deliver symphonic melodic death/thrash metal from Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, layering orchestral elements over aggressive Bavarian metallic fury. Their ambitious genre fusion combines the melodic sweep of symphonic metal with the intensity of death and thrash.
Graz, AT · active
Sacrificed Moloch were a death metal band from Graz, Styria, active from approximately 2002 until their split-up, and remained unsigned throughout their existence. They operated as an independent unit within the Graz extreme metal underground, leaving behind a small catalog of raw death metal recordings.
Trier, DE · 2018–present · active
Sacrilegion play melodic death metal from Trier, Germany's oldest city, blending Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Rhineland sensibility. Their ancient Roman-founded hometown provides a historically resonant backdrop for their modern extreme metal.
Minsk, BY · 2018–present · active
Black/death metal band from Minsk, active since 2018, channeling extreme metal's most blasphemous impulses from the Belarusian capital. Their confrontational name signals an uncompromising approach to the fusion of black and death metal.
Saarbrücken, DE · 2020–present · active
Sacrilegious Rite deal in black/death metal from Saarbrucken, channeling the darkest impulses of extreme metal from the French-German border region. Their Saarland base places them at a cultural crossroads between Germanic and Gallic metal traditions.
Ängelholm, SE · 2018–present · active
Angelholm's Sacrilegist pair death and thrash metal from the Skane coast since 2018. Their profaner-of-sacred-things name channels systematic blasphemy into compositions of dual-genre aggression from southern Sweden.

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