The Silence is a heavy metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2015. They play traditional heavy metal with driving riffs and powerful dynamics from the Lombardy capital.

The Silenced is a melodic groove metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend melodic sensibility with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.

The Silent Rage is a melodic power metal band from Athens, active since 2016. Their music delivers the soaring vocals and melodic intensity of power metal with a simmering fury beneath the surface.

The Silent Wedding is a heavy/power metal band from Athens, formed in 2022. Their evocative name lends an air of ceremony and gravity to their powerful metal from the Greek capital.

The Sins of Thy Beloved formed in Bryne, Norway in November 1996, playing gothic and death-doom metal that combined female soprano vocals with male death metal growls, drawing immediate comparisons to contemporaries Tristania and early Theatre of Tragedy. Their debut Lake of Sorrow (1998) on Napalm Records featured prominent violin arrangements that gave the album a distinctly funereal atmosphere. Perpetual Desolation followed in 2000, also on Napalm Records, and stands as the band's final studio recording. Though the band remained largely inactive after that point, both albums retained a dedicated following within the gothic doom metal community.

The Skullthrone is a black/death metal band from Campobasso, Italy, formed in 2011. They deliver fierce extreme metal combining black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal brutality from Molise.

Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Tyrol, Austria, The Sky Is Ours were active from 2006 to 2011, operating as an independent act in the regional extreme metal underground. Their music sat at the heavier, riff-driven end of the melodic death/metalcore crossover that characterized much of the mid-2000s European metal scene.

The Slaughters from Toulouse deliver heavy metal with the butchery their plural-massacre name demands since 2012. Over a decade of riff-driven slaughter from the Pink City has produced classic, no-frills metal.

The Slayerking is a gothic/doom metal band from Athens, formed in 2019. Their music merges the dark romanticism of gothic metal with the crushing weight of doom, creating a regally oppressive sound.