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Served Cold play metalcore and deathcore from Schongau in the Bavarian Alps, combining punishing breakdowns with the scenic backdrop of the Lech Valley. Formed in 2022, they bring modern heaviness to one of Upper Bavaria's most picturesque regions.
Service Geriatrie burst onto the French brutal death metal scene in 2023 with a darkly humorous name belying genuinely punishing sonic output. Their blasting, guttural approach sits firmly within the gore-obsessed end of the death metal spectrum.
Set Up to Fail deliver melodic death metal from the Arctic city of Rovaniemi, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with the doomed inevitability their name suggests. Active since 2013, they bring Arctic Circle intensity to the Finnish melodeath landscape.
Seth is a French black metal band founded in Bordeaux in 1995, emerging as one of the leading acts of the French extreme metal underground with their 1998 debut Les Blessures de l'Âme. The band's sound balances hauntingly melodic passages with aggressive orthodox black metal structures, and their lyrical themes draw from religious transgression, historical atrocity, and French cultural mythology. After a decade-long hiatus following their 2005 split, Seth reformed in 2011 and continued releasing albums, with La France des Maudits arriving in 2024, a conceptual work inspired by the violence of the French Revolution.
Sundsvall's Setherial have been one of Sweden's formative black metal acts since 1998. Nearly three decades from the Norrland coastal city, they helped establish the Swedish black metal sound alongside peers like Marduk and Dark Funeral.
Sethnefer craft melodic doom/death metal and rock from Oldenburg, blending the emotional weight of doom with melodic accessibility since 2006. Their Egyptian-mythology-inspired name adds an exotic dimension to their North German sound.
Sethqen channel doom/death metal from Dresden, building ponderous, heavy compositions from the Saxon capital. Active since 2012, they bring the crushing deliberation of doom/death to one of eastern Germany's most culturally rich cities.
SETYØURSAILS is a German metalcore and post-hardcore band formed in Cologne in 2017, built around a blend of aggressive screamed vocals and clean melodic passages addressing themes of mental health, resilience, and personal struggle. Their self-produced debut Enough (2018) established the band in the domestic scene before their major-label debut Nightfall (January 2022) on Napalm Records brought them wider recognition with a more polished and expansive sound. A third album Bad Blood (2024) pushed the band's palette further, incorporating rock and pop influences alongside their core metalcore foundation.
Seuche ("Plague") deal in black/death metal from Bavaria, channeling pestilential themes through extreme metal aggression. Their name perfectly suits the virulent intensity of their sound.
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