Fairbanks, Alaska's Slaughtered Serpent bring raw black metal and noisegrind to one of the most geographically remote corners of the American extreme underground, formed in 2024 in a city where the long Arctic winters lend themselves to music this bleak and confrontational.

Soft Shell is a raw black metal and ambient project from Kalamazoo, Michigan, formed in 2021, producing lo-fi, abrasive black metal that merges the primitive rawness of the underground with cold atmospheric textures.

Solnoctus is a raw black metal band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 2014, favoring the deliberately abrasive, lo-fi production and primitive ferocity that defines the raw black metal aesthetic.

Solstice Ritual is a Virginia raw black metal project active since 2012, dealing in abrasive, lo-fi black metal of a deliberately primitive and hostile character, with an uncompromising aesthetic rooted in the earliest traditions of the genre.

Somme are a Rochester, New York death metal band formed in 2020, their name invoking the catastrophic World War I battle as a thematic lens for brutal and unrelenting extreme metal.

Somnambulistic Nightmare is a Fort Wayne, Indiana raw black metal and dark ambient project formed in 2022, pairing the abrasive primitivity of raw black metal with the disorienting stillness of dark ambient to evoke states of waking dread.

Sorrowfrost is a Minnesota raw black metal project formed in 2021, channeling the frigid winters of the upper Midwest into stripped-down, lo-fi black metal with an uncompromising primitive aesthetic.

Spectral Torture is a raw black metal project from New Jersey, formed in 2023, embracing the most abrasive and deliberately lo-fi end of the black metal spectrum. Their work strips the genre to its harshest essentials, favoring noise, spite, and contempt for polish over any concessions to accessibility.

Spectral Woods is a raw black metal solo project from Eureka, California, formed in 2019, producing primitive, lo-fi black metal rooted in harsh production and misanthropic Northern California forest aesthetics.