Spectral Voices is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Brooklyn, New York, active since 2005, blending technical death metal aggression with melodic sensibilities and progressive song structures.

Spherical Obscenity is a Buffalo, New York band formed in 2017 that combines melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with traditional heavy metal structure, balancing hook-driven riffing against heavier rhythmic attack.

Spire is a progressive death metal and metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, formed in 2004, blending technical guitar work and complex song structures with the heaviness of death metal and the intensity of metalcore.

Spiritual Sickness is a progressive power metal band from Long Island, New York, formed in 2012, combining the melodic sweep and clean vocal delivery of power metal with the technical complexity and shifting dynamics of progressive metal.

Splattered Entrails is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from Levittown, New York, formed in 2006, combining the guttural density of brutal death with the surgical gore fixation of goregrind in the Long Island underground.

Brooklyn's Spotlights, the husband-and-wife project of Mario and Sarah Quintero, conjure dense, monolithic atmospheres at the intersection of doom metal, shoegaze, and dreampop, creating what critics have aptly dubbed 'doomgaze.' Signed to Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings, the band crafts expansive soundscapes where crushing sludge riffs dissolve into ethereal, reverb-drenched beauty. Their ability to be simultaneously heavy and hauntingly beautiful has earned them a devoted following and a stunning tour resume for a band operating at the fringes of multiple genres.

St. Bastard is a Brooklyn-based sludge and doom metal band formed in 2015, combining the slow, crushing weight of doom with sludge metal's abrasive, feedback-drenched heaviness.

Stabbed is a Long Island, New York death metal and grindcore band formed in 2016, fusing the blasting ferocity of grindcore with the surgical brutality of death metal.

New York black metal act formed in 2024, this Starvation project channels raw, stripped-down black metal hostility with an uncompromising underground sensibility.