Minneapolis black metal outfit Shaidar Logoth weave ambient textures into a harsh, dissonant black metal framework, building an immersive and often harrowing atmosphere since 2011. Their incorporation of drone and ambient passages gives the music a contemplative darkness that extends well beyond standard raw black metal aggression.

Shalrath is an American solo or small-unit project operating in the crushing overlap of funeral doom, black metal, and death metal — a trio of extreme forms rarely fused with this much deliberate patience since the project's 2013 formation. Their sound moves at glacial tempos with a suffocating atmosphere drawn equally from the void-seeking qualities of each genre.

Philadelphia-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Shane Lentz works in the space where progressive black metal meets experimental solo construction, releasing atmospheric and technically demanding music under his own name since 2014. His work is characterized by unconventional song architecture and a willingness to push black metal's melodic and harmonic conventions well past genre norms.

California's Shataan began as a black metal project in 2024 before incorporating folk and psychedelic elements — a trajectory their Metal Archives genre description openly acknowledges — making them a rare act willing to move between kvlt severity and earthy, exploratory rock. The combination suggests a project more interested in evolution than genre loyalty.

Sacramento raw black metal project that surfaced in 2024, embracing the deliberately primitive, corrosive production aesthetic of the raw black metal underground with unfiltered menace.

A black metal act out of Russellville, Alabama, Shekinah has been forging a raw and uncompromising sound since 2010, drawing on orthodox black metal traditions with a distinctly American underground sensibility.

Named for Tolkien's monstrous spider, Cleveland's Shelob spins cold, atmospheric black metal with a predatory patience, building dense webs of tremolo and darkness since 2011.

Buffalo, Minnesota's Sheogorath — named for the Daedric Prince of Madness — blends thrash metal's velocity with the icy venom of black metal, creating a chaotic and unpredictable sonic identity since 2017.

Atlanta's Shepherds ov the Veil emerged in 2023 with a raw black metal approach steeped in occult atmosphere, adding to Georgia's growing underground black metal presence with a sense of ceremonial menace.

California's Shield Roar operates in the shadowed space where black metal meets ambient texture, using cold riffs and expansive soundscapes to create an atmospheric and isolating listening experience since 2020.

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Lexington, Kentucky's Shinigami has been channeling raw black metal with a long-running underground devotion since 2000, bringing a lo-fi, unpolished conviction to the American black metal fringe.

Out of Stephenville, Texas, Shinigami no Yuujin delivers raw, isolated black metal with a deep personal intensity, operating in the margins of the Texas underground since 2015 with a commitment to the genre's most austere traditions.

St. Louis' Shire operates in the harsher territory of black metal, carving out cold and aggressive material from Missouri's underground since 2013 with a rawness that keeps the genre's underground spirit intact.

San Clemente, California's Shit Wizard merges black and death metal with a nihilistic, lo-fi edge, building a reputation in the Southern California underground for unfiltered, filthy extreme metal since 2012.