Spirits of Jigoku is a black metal project from North Carolina formed in 2025, taking its name from the Buddhist concept of hell and channeling malevolent, otherworldly hostility through raw black metal.

Spiritual Demise is a Los Angeles black metal band formed in 2009, delivering cold, misanthropic black metal that contrasts sharply with the city's sunlit surroundings through aggressive songwriting and raw production.

Spiritual Eclipse is a black/death metal band from Modesto, California, formed in 2002, blending the tremolo-picked aggression of black metal with the brutal, down-tuned heaviness of death metal.

Spiritus Vindictus is a raw black metal project from Wilmington, North Carolina, formed in 2023, embracing the genre's most primitive and lo-fi production values to deliver venomous, unadorned black metal.

Spirotin is a Los Angeles band formed in 2021 that merges black metal and metalcore, combining the atmospheric malice and tremolo aggression of black metal with the rhythmic heaviness and breakdowns of metalcore.

Spirus is a Philadelphia black/thrash metal band formed in 1996, one of the city's longer-running underground metal acts, fusing the speed and riff density of thrash with the cold aggression of black metal.

Spiter is a Philadelphia black metal and punk band formed in 2021, blending the raw antagonism of black metal with the stripped-down aggression of punk in a style reminiscent of black n' roll and black punk hybrids.

Spitting Black is a Boston-based band formed in 2006 that fuses the rawness of black metal with the aggression of hardcore punk, delivering a caustic blend of blast beats and d-beat rhythms. Their sound sits in the tradition of the black metal/hardcore crossover that flourished in the northeastern US underground.

Detroit, Michigan black metal act Spymaster emerged in 2014, channeling the cold, aggressive energy of the black metal genre through the lens of Detroit's harsh industrial and musical landscape.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Squalor have played death metal and grindcore since 2010, merging the brutality of both genres into a relentlessly abrasive sound rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground.

Stadium Eternus is a Portland, Oregon band formed in 2017 that began with traditional heavy metal before evolving toward atmospheric black metal and ambient soundscapes, blending vast, ethereal textures with black metal's raw intensity.

Stag is a black/doom metal band from Columbia, Missouri, formed in 2011, merging the desolate grimness of black metal with doom metal's slow, grief-laden heaviness.

Stahl Gorthorl is a black metal band from San Antonio, Texas, formed in 2014, practicing raw and misanthropic black metal rooted in the Nordic tradition with a distinctly underground aesthetic.

Stake Driver is a Dayton, Ohio black metal band formed in 2021, playing raw and aggressive black metal steeped in the cold, primitive atmosphere of the genre's second-wave roots.

Stalagmite is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania black metal band formed in 2023, carving out a place in the city's active underground metal scene with raw, atmospheric black metal.