Black/death metal project from France launched in 2020. They channel decay and darkness through fierce extreme metal.

A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Krasnoyarsk-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2012, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.

Drawing from Stockholm's musical fabric, this Swedish act forges Black Metal and Melodic Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.

Avant-garde black and progressive metal duo from Paris, France formed in 2019, featuring multi-instrumentalist Vague and vocalist Avitus. Their 2022 third album Necroses shape-shifts across 44 minutes of extreme metal, electronic, krautrock, and psychedelic influences.

Black metal project from Germany, channeling pestilential darkness since 2006. Their plague-evoking name reflects the toxic, infectious quality of their atmospheric black metal compositions.

Italian avant-garde metal project from Padua, known for radically genre-defying compositions that merge black metal, jazz, and progressive elements. Their Earache Records release Through My Dog's Eyes (2009) exemplifies their restless experimental approach.

Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Based in Bergamo, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.

Black metal, death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal project from Finland, active since 2020. They weave folk elements into extreme metal with a genre-crossing approach.

Black metal project from Patras, Greece launched in 2024. They channel nightmarish black metal from the Peloponnese.