Skeld is a raw black/death metal project out of Eugene, Oregon, formed in 2021, working in the lo-fi, corrosive tradition where production rawness is a feature rather than a limitation. Their music is primitive and deliberately abrasive, carved out of Oregon's underground with sharp edges left intact.

This elusive raw black metal entity, active since 2021, forgoes location and commercial accessibility in favor of lo-fi abrasion and atmospheric severity — the kind of deliberately obscured project that treats underground anonymity as an aesthetic stance.

A Kentucky-based raw black metal project formed in 2020, Skorbvstr operates in the deliberately abrasive, minimalist tradition of the genre — lo-fi production and stripped-to-the-bone aggression serving as the project's defining aesthetic.

Salt Lake City's Skumlord have been a fixture of the American raw black metal underground since 2007, delivering a deliberately lo-fi, corrosive sound that prioritizes atmosphere and hatred over sonic clarity. Their releases embody the stripped-back, anti-production ethos central to the raw black metal tradition.

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.

Spira is a raw black metal project from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2023, embracing the primitive, lo-fi aesthetic of second-wave black metal with a harsh and deliberately unpolished sonic approach.

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.