10 21st Century Rock/Metal Albums That Never Got A Sequel

Tremendously wicked, the group formerly known as Traitor busted out of Michigan with their putrid cauldron pot of hardcore, grindcore and black metal. Fronted by Nick Holland, the otherwise unassuming former-frontman of Detroit-based deathcore outfit And Hell Followed With, not much was known regarding Sunlight’s Bane overall sound, with only a handful of demos and half a two-song split with Newcastle hardcore mob Geist released prior to their 2017 debut under the new name.

So when The Blackest Volume (Like All the Earth Was Buried) dropped, and listeners were greeted by the intense onslaught of the opening track “Praise the Venom Shield”, it was impossible to not take notice. Drawing acclaim from the likes of Metal Hammer, MetalSucks and Metal Injection, TBVLATEWB was an instant underground success, drawing comparisons to the likes of Anaal Nathrakh, Nails, and Black Breath.

While we should’ve seen a fresh, young band become the latest extreme band to break the underground mainstream – joining the likes of Nathrakh, Napalm Death, and Behemoth – we instead got radio silence, aside from three Facebook posts in five years. The Metal Archives mentions the band dissolved some time in 2018, and Holland has only recently resurfaced with his new metallic hardcore outfit Wounded Touch.