Self-Hatred craft atmospheric death/doom metal from Pilsen, building vast, melancholic soundscapes that channel despair into towering compositions. Their music dwells in the space between crushing heaviness and sorrowful beauty, favoring emotional depth over mere aggression.

Self-Implosion deliver melodic death metal from Alicante, channeling the collapse their name describes through Scandinavian-influenced melodeath compositions. Active since 2012, they bring Mediterranean intensity to the genre.

Selfexile blend doom metal, stoner grooves, and death 'n' roll from Sokolov, creating a murky, riff-driven sound that swings between slow-motion devastation and swaggering heaviness. Their western Bohemian roots lend a gritty, industrial-town edge to their music.

Sempervivum (from the succulent plant genus meaning "always alive") forge death and black metal from the Lorraine towns of Blainville-sur-l'Eau and Damelevières. Active since 2015, they bring hardy, unkillable extremity to the eastern French scene.

Samara's Senamirha deliver death metal from the Volga bend since 2020. Their reversed name and aerospace-capital origins channel inverted perspectives into compositions of extremity from Russia's space-launch city.

Graz-based extreme metal act forging a dense hybrid of death, black, and doom metal since 2011. Their multilayered approach draws from each subgenre's heaviest elements, combining guttural vocals and blast beats with the crushing tempos and oppressive atmospheres of doom.

Sensu Stricto ("In the Strict Sense") deal in death metal from Leipzig, bringing precise, uncompromising extremity to Saxony's cultural capital. Emerging in 2025, their Latin legal term name hints at a meticulous approach to the genre.

Sentence channel doom/death metal from the Lower Saxon cities of Garbsen and Luneburg, building crushing, verdict-like compositions that sentence listeners to slow-motion devastation. Their dual-city base spans the northern German lowlands.

Sentenced evolved from raw death metal into gothic metal and rock, becoming one of Finland's most beloved and tragic metal acts. Based in the Oulu area, their albums from "Amok" to "The Funeral Album" traced an arc from northern Finnish extremity to melancholic, introspective rock before the band's dissolution.