The Spectre Beneath from Runcorn in Cheshire craft progressive and power metal that unearths phantoms from below the surface since 2019. Their spectral name drives compositions that dig deep into the musical underground of the northwest.

The Spirit from Saarbrücken have earned wide recognition for their fierce blend of black and death metal, delivering melodically rich yet brutally aggressive compositions since 2018. Their critically acclaimed work has positioned them among the most exciting extreme metal acts to emerge from the Franco-German border region.

The Split from Olomouc weave progressive metal complexity with rock accessibility, building intricate arrangements that balance technical musicianship with melodic hooks since 2013. Based in one of Moravia's oldest university cities, they bring an intellectual edge to their progressive compositions.

The Steamrollers from Strasbourg deliver southern metal with the flattening, unstoppable force their industrial-machinery name promises since 2011. Over a decade of Dixie-soaked heaviness from the Alsatian capital — about as far from the American South as possible — they have transplanted the genre with conviction.

The Stellar Lake is a doom/gothic metal band from Drama in northern Greece, active since 2007. Their celestial name evokes the cosmic beauty that infuses their doom and gothic metal from the Macedonian heartland.

The Stoned Witches Experiment is a doom/stoner metal band from Olbia, Sardinia, Italy, formed in 2018. They create fuzz-drenched, psychedelic doom and stoner metal with occult-tinged grooves.

The Stones of Arkham from Leipzig merge stoner metal's fuzz-drenched grooves with doom metal's slow-burn heaviness, all through the Lovecraftian lens their name demands since 2014. Their cosmic horror-themed approach to riff worship channels both the weird fiction tradition and the psychedelic doom underground.

The Strikes is a heavy metal band from Cosenza, Italy, formed in 2018. They deliver hard-hitting traditional heavy metal from the Calabria region.

The Styx Shipping Society from the Fichtelgebirge mountains in northeastern Bavaria craft black metal under a darkly whimsical concept — ferrying souls across the river Styx since 2008. Nearly two decades of activity from this remote Franconian mountain range has produced atmospheric black metal steeped in mythological death-transport imagery.