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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Sadogoat channel black/death metal from the Danish island of Funen, delivering bestial extremity from the town of Glamsbjerg. Emerging in 2025, they bring raw, goat-themed aggression to the Danish underground.
Sadomator deal in black/death metal from Glamsbjerg on Funen, channeling blasphemous extremity from the Danish countryside. Active since 2018, they bring unflinching brutality to the Scandinavian underground.
Saeculum Obscurum ("Dark Age") deliver melodic death metal from Munich, bringing Scandinavian-influenced melodeath to the Bavarian capital. Their Latin name reflects a thematic engagement with history's darkest chapters.
Porto's Saephe pair death and thrash metal from Portugal's northern capital since 2019. Their enigmatic name and Douro Valley origins channel the granite city's resilience into aggressive dual-genre compositions.
Saikon deal in death metal from Marseille, channeling extreme aggression from the Mediterranean port. Active since 2015, they bring Provencal brutality to the French death metal scene.
Belgrade's Sakramentum merge black, death, and symphonic metal from the Serbian capital since 2020. Their Latin-sacrament name channels ritualistic devotion into compositions of multi-genre darkness.
Sakrosankt practice death metal from Engelskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, channeling raw aggression from the Bergisches Land region. Emerging in 2025, they represent the newest wave of German death metal.
Sallimus deliver melodic death metal from Oulu, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with northern Finnish intensity. Emerging in 2025, they bring Arctic melodic extremity to the Finnish death metal landscape.
Salome deal in death metal from Gronau/Epe on the Dutch-German border, their biblical name contrasting with the genre's extreme sonic violence. Their border-town origins place them at the intersection of German and Dutch extreme metal traditions.
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