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.

Los Angeles' Shepherd brings a melodic sharpness to their thrash-infused death metal, weaving the hooky aggression of melodic death into a sound anchored by California's long history of speed and precision.

Vicious Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Abilene.

Boston's Shipwreck A.D. has been tearing through the intersection of hardcore, thrash, and crossover since 2006, earning a reputation as a ferocious live act whose sound carries both the muscle of thrash and the aggression of the city's hardcore lineage.

Burlington, Vermont's Shitangel throws black, death, and thrash into a single caustic blender, emerging as one of the more abrasively minded acts in the New England underground with an irreverent approach to extreme metal since 2019.

El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.

Detroit's Shitfucker have been weaponizing the intersection of black, death, and thrash metal since 2005, lacing their filth-encrusted attack with punk belligerence — a Motor City band that sounds like it was dragged out of a dumpster fire and handed a guitar.

A New Hampshire black/thrash outfit that emerged in 2023, Shithammered deal in the kind of speed-driven, primitive extremity where tremolo-picked chaos meets Teutonic thrash aggression — short on subtlety, long on destruction.

A New York act founded in 2014, ShitKill blend groove metal's chunky, riff-forward momentum with thrash's velocity, crafting a muscular hybrid sound rooted in the aggressive traditions of the Northeast underground.

Oakland's Shitty Fucker have been grinding out their Bay Area blend of death/thrash and grindcore since 2017, drawing on the region's long tradition of aggressive, politically charged underground metal with an unpolished, high-energy assault.

Springfield, Massachusetts crossover and thrash act Shoot to Kill have been playing fast, aggressive metal since 2011, channeling the working-class fury of the New England punk and thrash scenes into a no-frills attack that owes as much to hardcore as it does to metal.

Cleveland death/thrash outfit Shores of Fire formed in 2018 with a direct, aggressive style that merges the riff density of death metal with thrash's propulsive momentum — firmly in the tradition of Ohio's hard-edged, no-nonsense extreme metal.

Boston thrash act Shortfuse formed in 2022, arriving into a city with deep metal roots and dedicating themselves to the classic, speed-driven end of the thrash spectrum with an approach that favors aggression and directness over progressive embellishment.

Plainville, Connecticut's Shovelhead work the intersection of classic heavy metal and thrash, drawing on old-school hard rock energy and driving riff craft that favors straightforward muscle over modern production polish.

Richmond, Virginia's Shovelhead A.D., formed in 2024, come out swinging with a groove-and-thrash hybrid that suits the city's fertile underground metal history — heavy, mid-paced punishment with an emphasis on riff momentum.