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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
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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Sincreation deliver melodic death metal from Kouvola, combining the Scandinavian melodeath tradition with their own southeastern Finnish character. Active since 2016, they bring sinful creation to the Kymenlaakso metal scene.
Sindeep blend symphonic and melodic death metal from Helsinki, layering orchestral arrangements over aggressive melodeath frameworks. Formed in 2020, they bring deep-sinning grandeur to the Finnish capital's extreme scene.
Sindread deliver melodic death metal from the rural northeastern Finnish communities of Nilsia, Siilinjarvi, and Rautavaara, combining Scandinavian melodeath with backcountry Finnish intensity. Active since 2018, they bring Savo-region dread to the melodeath tradition.
Sine Anima ("Without Soul" in Latin) forge gothic, doom, and death metal from Murcia, blending dark romanticism with crushing extremity. Active since 2014, they bring soulless darkness to the southeastern Spanish scene.
Sinetrium play melodic death metal from Pilsen, combining Scandinavian-influenced melodeath riffing with Czech compositional sensibility. Their western Bohemian origins connect them to a city with a growing reputation for quality extreme metal.
Sinful Earth play melodic death metal from Bochum, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with the gritty energy of the Ruhr Valley. Active since 2012, they've built a solid catalog of aggressive yet melodic extreme metal.
Tolyatti's Singulus deliver death metal from Russia's automotive capital since 2021. Their Latin name meaning "single" channels isolated focus into compositions of extremity from the Volga bend.
Vologda's Sinister Void pair death and thrash metal from the northern Russian city since 2024. Their malevolent-emptiness name channels the void of existence into compositions of dual-genre aggression from the Russian north.
Sinworks blend death metal with metalcore from Berlin, combining extreme metal's brutality with the rhythmic punch of modern heavy music. Active since 2013, they draw from the German capital's vast and diverse metal ecosystem.
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