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Columbia, Missouri's Skooma have been deep in the stoner and doom underground since 2009, the band's name borrowed from Elder Scrolls fantasy lore as a fitting label for music built on hazy, repetitive riffs and slow, narcotic heaviness.
Saint Petersburg's Skorb' pair death and doom metal from the cultural capital since 2021. Their Russian name meaning "sorrow" or "grief" channels the emotional weight of mourning into compositions that merge crushing heaviness with funereal atmosphere.
A black metal project from Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Skorbb have been active since 2017 in one of New England's smaller communities — crafting dense, uncompromising black metal that thrives in the anonymity and quiet of rural Rhode Island.
Skorbut blast through brutal death metal and grindcore from Berlin, emerging in 2025 with the diseased intensity their scurvy-inspired name suggests. Their German capital output channels the most extreme end of the death/grind spectrum.
A Kentucky-based raw black metal project formed in 2020, Skorbvstr operates in the deliberately abrasive, minimalist tradition of the genre — lo-fi production and stripped-to-the-bone aggression serving as the project's defining aesthetic.
Los Angeles's Skorched pull from thrash, death metal, and hardcore in equal measure — a crossover-minded trio active since 2017 that reflects the city's long tradition of genre-blurring underground acts where pit culture and riff weight converge.
Georgetown, Texas's Skotose have been exploring black metal's bleaker corridors since 2022, operating just outside of Austin in a suburb that rarely appears on metal maps — their work defined by a cold, direct intensity suited to the Greek-derived name meaning 'darkness.'
Razor-sharp Thrash Metal / Crossover / Hardcore from Houston.
Also from the Houston area, this New Caney-based Skourge (formed 2014) operates at the death metal and grindcore end of the extreme metal spectrum — shorter, faster, and more brutal than their Houston namesake, with grind's trademark disregard for anything resembling polish.
Skourged play metalcore from Prague, delivering aggressive breakdowns and melodic hooks in the modern heavy music tradition. Formed in 2022, they represent the newer generation of Czech metalcore.
Spokane, Washington's Skovicus have been crafting black metal since 2015 in a city far removed from both the coastal scenes and the genre's Scandinavian origins — an inland Northwest project that brings a cold, self-reliant quality to their material.
Out of Valhalla, New York — a town whose name suits the project well — Skovtåge has been playing black metal since 2021, the Danish name (meaning 'forest fog') matched by music that evokes dim woodland atmospheres and old-world darkness.
Skraek channel death metal from the Jutland town of Horsens, delivering the horror their name suggests through extreme compositions. Formed in 2022, they bring East Jutland aggression to the Danish death metal scene.
Herndon, Virginia's Skraelinx (formed 2023) work a death/thrash hybrid that draws on Northern Virginia's proximity to both the D.C. hardcore tradition and the broader East Coast extreme metal underground, channeling aggression through a name referencing the Norse term for indigenous peoples encountered in Vinland.
Skratte blend black and folk metal from the Hessian village of Flieden, drawing on Germanic folklore to inform their fusion of atmospheric black metal with traditional elements. Their rural Rhon-region origins provide an authentically wild backdrop for their pagan-tinged sound.
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