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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/22 @ Yuengling Center, Tampa
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Satra craft symphonic metal from the southeastern Finnish city of Lappeenranta, layering orchestral grandeur over heavy compositions near the Russian border. Active since 2016, they bring cinematic ambition to the Karelia region.
Sattador emerged in 2025 from Hann. Munden with a viscous blend of sludge metal and death 'n' roll, combining tar-thick riffs with groovy, swaggering rhythms. Their Lower Saxon fairy-tale town origins contrast perfectly with their filthy sonic approach.
Satuaria craft doom/death metal from the German underground, building ponderous, crushing compositions that channel both genres' heaviest impulses. Their sound favors the slow, deliberate devastation that defines the doom/death intersection.
Saturn Twilight channel doom metal from the Finnish underground, building ponderous compositions inspired by the gas giant's dying light. Active since 2017, they bring planetary weight to the Finnish doom tradition.
Saturnebula channel black metal from Dresden under a name that evokes cosmic darkness and planetary nebulae. Emerging in 2025, they represent the newest wave of Saxon black metal.
Saturnian Mist practice black metal from Kuopio in eastern Finland, channeling the atmospheric mystery of Saturn's moons through their compositions. Active since 2021, they bring cosmic darkness to the Savo region.
Saturnian Tempel craft ambient black metal from Paris, building immersive, contemplative compositions from the French capital. Active since 2016, they bring ringed-planet temples to the Parisian underground.
Uppsala's Saturniids pair sludge and doom metal from Sweden's ecclesiastical capital since 2021. Named for the giant silk moth family, their entomological reference channels the weight of enormous nocturnal wings into compositions of crushing heaviness.
Saturnist deliver stoner and doom metal from Helsinki, building ringed, heavy compositions inspired by the sixth planet. Active since 2018, they bring gravitational pull to the Finnish capital's stoner/doom scene.
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