Groove metal and metalcore band
Sadic Smile is a Tenerife band born in 2015, linked to groove metal and metalcore and winner of LALAcore 2018’s metal category.
Lagenda presents Sadic Smile as a band born in 2015 in northern Tenerife and programmes it for the LALAcore 2018 metal final. The later report from the same contest records its victory in the metal category. Programming sources and music platforms later document its activity in the Tenerife scene and the 2024 release of the EP Disconnection.
Its importance lies in representing a recent generation of Tenerife metal legitimised through contests, venues and local festivals. Alongside historic classic-heavy bands, Sadic Smile documents the continuity of Canarian metal towards groove, metalcore and independent production.
Local sources describe groove metal and a search for a different heavy metal, with complex harmonies, demanding technique and mixed influences. Metal Archives classifies the group as metalcore, while Apple Music places it within metal; the entry keeps both labels to reflect that stylistic area.
Transmission comes through contests such as LALAcore, local festivals such as +QRock and Guayota Fest, concerts at Aguere Cultural and digital release. This allows the catalogue to represent the young metal scene circulating through Tenerife cultural spaces.
Lagenda documents the group’s origin in northern Tenerife.
The band wins LALAcore’s metal category.
The EP Disconnection is released.
Tenerife
Since the twentieth century
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Gran Canaria
First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
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Gran Canaria
Active between 1965 and 1972; Ciclos was released in 1974
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