Suid Afrikaanse Swaar Metaal
Here's another labour of love. If you have any info or corrections for me, or would prefer not to be linked to this page, please contact me.
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My 5 Favourite South African Bands |
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No Longer With Us |
Still With Us |
| Aragorn | Shadowlord |
| Odyssey | Latemheim |
| Stryder | Funeral God |
| Voice Of Destruction | Architecture Of Aggression |
| Jaded Jane | Agro |
| Alphabetical Listing of ALL SA Metal Bands | |
| 2 Dogs Funking | 1991 - 1993 | Ex-Odyssey Members |
| Abhorrence | 1992 - 1994 | Death Metal with a famous member |
| Afflicted Truth | 2000 - 2001 | Modern Metal |
| Aragorn | 1985 - 1990 | Rock You Till You Die |
| Arcana XXII | 1997 - 0000 | Not strictly South African, but Southern African (South West Africa) |
| Architecture Of Aggression | 1997 - 0000 | Modern Death Metal |
| Agro | 1990 - 0000 | Long Running SA Metal band |
| Azrealla's Sorrow | 1998 - 2000 | Gothic Black Metal |
| Brothering | 1993 - 0000 | Not Really Metal but Ex-Odyssey Members |
| Critical Mass | 1991 - 1995 | Pre-Gutted Remains |
| Crystal Dawn | 1998 - 0000 | Melodically Driven Metal |
| Dark Millennium | 2000 - 2001 | Black Metal |
| Debauchery | 1992 - 1995 | My all-time Favourite SA Death Metal Band |
| Decay Into Light | 1998 - 2001 | Black Metal with ex-Retribution Denied Member |
| Desecrator | 1991 - 1994 | Pre-Groinchurn |
| Deviate | 1993 - 1998 | Politically Correct Death Metal |
| 1998 - 1999 | The Original Pretoria Death Metal Band | |
| Funeral God | 2002 - 0000 | Reformed with new members |
| Golgotha | 1991 - 1998 | Followers of the Judeo-Beast |
| Gorelock | 1998 - 0000 | Sick and Funny Heavy Metal |
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Grämlich |
1995 - 2000 | Gothic Doom Metal |
| Groinchurn | 1994 - 2001 | Satanic (;->) Grind Metal Masters |
| Gutted Remains | 1995 - 2001 | Groove Death Masters |
| Hollow Point | 2000 - 2001 | Modern Metal |
| Immortal Slave | 1999 - 2001 | Black Metal |
| Infectious Outbreak | 1997 - 1998 | Grinding Noise |
| Jaded Jane | 1995 - 1999 | Absolutely Incredible Glam Heavy Metal |
| King Chaos | 2002 - 0000 | Weird One-Man Project with Keyboards |
| Latemheim | 2001 - 0000 | Celtic Metal with Female Vocals |
| Marq Vas | 1999 - 0000 | Ex vocalist for Metalmorphosis (Lives in the UK now) |
| Maywar | 1999 - 2003 | Unrealised Potential |
| Mesadoth | 1995 - 0000 | Thrash Masters |
| Metalmorphosis | 1991 - 1999 | Absolutely Mad Bastards |
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Mjöllnir |
1998 - 2000 | Black Metal that should have lost the Keyboards |
| Morthor | 1997 - 2000 | Brilliant Speed Thrash Metal |
| Nicatas Drumer | 1997 - 0000 | Satanic Black Metal |
| Nocturnal Dominion | 1998 - 2000 | Black Metal |
| Odyssey | 1989 - 1991 | Incredible Glam Heavy Metal |
| Omen | 1996 - 1997 | Not the Canadian Metal Masters (Pre-Morthor) |
| P.I.T.T. | 1996 - 0000 | Modern Death Metal (Live in the UK now) |
| Pothole | 1995 - 2002 | Modern Metal from Cape Town |
| Prayer | 1995 - 1997 | Followers of the Judeo-Beast |
| Rapture | 1996 - 2000 | Rock Metal that sadly missed it's potential |
| Retribution Denied | 1992 - 2001 | Gurgling Death |
| Sacraphyx | 1996 - 2002 | Modern Death Metal |
| Sacrifist | 1995 - 0000 | Sort of Gothic Metal, without too much Gothic |
| Sepsis | 1991 - 1994 | Pre-Groinchurn |
| Sex Wax | 1995 - 1998 | Very cool guys who never managed to learn too play well |
| Shadowlord | 1999 - 0000 | South Africa's Best Power Metal Act |
| Stryder | 1990 - 1998 | Pretoria's Metal Stalwarts |
| Tyburn | 2001 - 0000 | Melodic Metal Newcomers |
| Urban Assault | 1989 - 1999 | Don't Bother Running... You'll Just Die Tired |
| Voice Of Destruction | 1987 - 1997 | Jou Ma Se Poes |
| Yuppie Terrorist Pigeon Feeders | 1990 - 1991 | Pre-Retribution Denied |
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Alphabetical Listing of some SA Metal Labels, Promoters, Zines etc |
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| I Don't Give a Fuck | SA's last remaining print Zine |
| Metal For Africa | Online Zine |
| Raven Records | New promoters from SA |
| Twilight X | South African Online Community |