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Sventevith is a Houston, Texas black metal band formed in 2025, taking its name from Behemoth's debut album and forging a raw, early black metal sound within the Texas underground.
Kraków's Sverblôd practice black metal from the ancient capital since 2016. Their archaic-Nordic-inflected name and Kraków's medieval atmosphere channel ancient Scandinavian darkness through Polish cultural depth.
Sverdkamp is a raw black metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2014, dealing in the lo-fi, punishing aesthetics of the raw black metal underground with uncompromising intensity.
Sverker is a Newark, Ohio depressive black and gothic metal project formed in 2020, blending the anguished minimalism of depressive black metal with gothic atmosphere and introspective darkness.
Svetovid is a San Francisco, California black metal band formed in 2018, named for the Slavic god of war and divination, playing atmospheric and fierce black metal from the Bay Area underground.
Svihel is a Minneapolis, Minnesota melodic progressive metal act formed in 2022, crafting melodically rich and compositionally intricate music within the progressive metal tradition of the Upper Midwest.
Svinibrod rip through thrash and death metal from Nymburk, combining the genres' most aggressive elements into a fierce hybrid. Their central Bohemian output channels raw, uncompromising extremity.
Svitjod deliver melodic death metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2019. Named for the Old Norse term for Sweden itself, their national-identity reference channels the essence of Swedish heritage into compositions of melodic intensity.
Black/death metal band from Sergipe, formed in 2019, consisting of CDV on vocals, NHSH on guitars, ASV on bass, and Hellbutcher on drums. Signed to Black Hearts Records, the band has released five recordings including Bestial Sonic Attack (2019), Primitivo Metal Diabólico (2020), and Diabolic Ritual of Steel (2024), which was recorded at Fabsounds Studio in Aracaju.
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