Punk-infused black metal from Gothenburg, formed in 2024. Their short, violent compositions marry crust punk's directness with black metal's atmospheric menace.

German black 'n' roll band from Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria, formed in 2023. They merge black metal's darkness with rock and roll swagger for a Bavarian-flavored blackened groove.

Atmospheric black metal entity from Lviv, formed in 2013. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.

Thrash/black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, active since 2013. They channel aggressive extreme metal from the Mediterranean island.

French atmospheric and avant-garde black metal band from Mondeville, active since 1995. With three decades of boundary-pushing output spanning atmospheric black metal, industrial metal, and dark ambient, they are one of the most influential and innovative extreme metal acts in France and beyond.

German black metal band from Thuringia, active since 2004. With over two decades of output, they are one of Thuringia's longest-standing black metal projects.

Cold, unrelenting black metal from Žilina, active since 2025. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.

Spanish black metal band from Málaga, formed in 2020. They channel fist-of-blood black metal from the Andalusian coast.

Cold, unrelenting black metal from Sweden, active since 2012. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.