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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Swamp Goat blend black metal with sludge from the German underground, creating a mud-caked hybrid that draws from both genres' darkest, most abrasive corners. Active since 2013, they bring caprine fury to the extreme metal swamplands.
Swampworm practice black metal from Munich, burrowing through dark compositions from the Bavarian capital. Formed in 2022, they bring invertebrate malevolence to the southern German underground.
Swarga practice black metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2014. Named for the Slavic heavenly realm, their pagan-paradise name channels pre-Christian afterlife mythology into atmospheric compositions.
Lesser Poland's Swarost practice black metal from the southern Polish region since 2010. Their Slavic-deity-derived name channels the ancient god of fire and ironworking into compositions shaped by Lesser Poland's heritage.
Swart Impaler channel black/death metal from Koblenz, delivering the piercing brutality their name promises from the Rhine-Moselle confluence. Emerging in 2025, they bring fresh impaling intensity to the Rhineland-Palatinate extreme scene.
Swastika practice black metal from Kiel on the Baltic coast, operating in the genre's most confrontational territory. Active since 2011, they channel the provocative tradition of extreme black metal from Schleswig-Holstein.
SweetSuicide channel depressive black metal from Jyvaskyla, exploring the genre's most paradoxically named emotional territory. Emerging in 2025, they bring saccharine despair to the central Finnish underground.
Gothenburg's Swordmaster have evolved from black metal to melodic death/thrash metal since their early years. Their weapon-wielder name and origins in the melodic death metal capital have produced compositions spanning the aggressive spectrum of Swedish extreme metal.
Vranov nad Toplou's Swordokult practice black metal from the eastern Slovak town since 2014. Their blade-cult name and Zemplin origins channel the worship of edged weaponry into over a decade of atmospheric compositions from the Ondava valley.
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