Stavropol's Shroud of Frost pair death and doom metal from the North Caucasus city since 2020. Their frozen-burial-cloth name channels the cold of the Caucasian highlands into compositions of atmospheric, crushing duality.

Nizhny Novgorod's Shuja pair death and doom metal from the Volga-Oka confluence since 2019. Their name and origins at the meeting of two great rivers channel the weight of converging waterways into compositions of dual-genre heaviness.

Sidewalk Mafia craft gothic and doom metal from Helsinki, combining dark urban themes with crushing heaviness. Formed in 2022, they bring street-level darkness to the Finnish capital's gothic doom scene.

Somma Lombardo's Sidhe blend doom and gothic metal with a name from Irish fairy mythology since their formation. This Lombard act channels Celtic mysticism through a distinctly Italian lens of dark romanticism.

Bratislava's Sighisoara pair gothic and doom metal from the Slovak capital since 2013. Named for the Transylvanian city where Vlad Dracula was born, over a decade of channeling vampiric heritage into darkly atmospheric compositions from the Danube.

Silent Stream of Godless Elegy are Czech folk/doom metal pioneers from Hranice, blending authentic Moravian folk traditions with crushing doom since 1995. Their nine-album catalog, including works like "Smutnice" and "Navaz," channels ancient Slavic melancholy through heavy instrumentation in a way that few bands have replicated.

Silent Tower fuses black metal's bleakness with doom metal's crushing weight from the Provencal town of Martigues, formed in 2024. Their Mediterranean origins add an unusual geographic context to an otherwise Northern European-influenced sonic palette.

Silent Void crafts melodic doom/death metal from somewhere within France, their exact location kept deliberately obscure since their 2019 formation. Their compositions pair mournful clean melodies with guttural death metal vocals over glacially paced arrangements.

Silentvice deliver atmospheric doom/death metal from Madrid, building immersive, crushing compositions that channel the vise-like grip their name describes. Active since 2015, they bring suffocating heaviness to the Spanish capital.