Split dogs are a Bristol punk'n'roll band formed around vocalist Harry Atkins and guitarist Mil Martinez, with Suez Boyle and Chris Hugall helping lock the group into a raw, hard-gigging unit. The band's roots go back to a desire to strip rock music back to its basic charge: loud guitars, short songs, fast tempos, and a refusal to make the music feel polished or algorithm-friendly. Their self-titled 2024 album and 2025 follow-up Here To Destroy frame that approach clearly, delivering garage-rock attack, street-punk bluntness, and old-school rock and roll swagger in compact bursts. Split dogs' songs feel built for small rooms as much as bigger punk stages, with rasped vocals, unfussy riffs, and rhythm-section urgency carrying the point. Their sound draws from classic punk and glammy rock toughness without becoming nostalgia. It is direct, physical, and impatient, focused on live force and the communal release of a noisy room.

Odesa's Split Personality explore progressive metal from the Black Sea port since 2011. Over a decade from the Pearl of the Black Sea, their dissociative-identity name has channeled the fragmentation of the self into compositions of technical ambition.

Splitkick combine death metal with hardcore punk from Halle an der Saale, fusing extreme metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational energy. Formed in 2023, they bring crossover intensity to the Saxony-Anhalt scene.

Novara's Splēne channel black metal with an accented spelling since 2025. Their Piedmontese origins and bile-themed name suggest compositions steeped in bitterness and raw, unprocessed negativity.

Rome's Spoiled deliver thrash metal from the Italian capital since 2022. Their name carries connotations of rot and excess, channeled into compositions of aggressive, unchecked energy.

Sliedrecht's Spoiler play heavy metal from the South Holland river town since 2015. Their name of revelations and disruption channels a subversive spirit into traditional metal from the Dutch waterways.

Slam/brutal death metal band from the Black Sea port city of Varna, active since 2013. Their explosive blend of slam's crushing breakdowns and brutal death metal's technical ferocity makes them one of the heaviest acts on Bulgaria's eastern coast.

Spontaner Freitod ("Spontaneous Suicide") channel black metal from the German underground, exploring the genre's most nihilistic and despairing themes. Active since 2015, their confrontational name reflects the emotional extremity of their music.

Groningen's Spooken craft doom metal with a Dutch name meaning "ghosts" since 2015. Their spectral name and northern Dutch origins channel the eeriness of the Groningen wetlands into haunting, ponderous compositions.