Black metal project from Belgium, conjuring raw, atmospheric darkness since 2015. Their sound embraces the genre's most austere and unadorned tendencies, stripping black metal down to its essential elements of tremolo picking and blast beats.

Black/doom metal project from Hagglingen, Switzerland, blending the atmospheric cold of black metal with doom's crushing weight since 2015. Their Latin name, meaning "drained of blood," captures the lifeless, suffocating atmosphere of their sound.

Emerging from Brescia, this Italian act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.

Black metal project from Redditch, England launched in 2025. They channel dark intensity from the West Midlands.

Gothenburg, Sweden — black metal, death metal, and symphonic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2010, they deal in cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.

When Exsilium emerged in 2012 from Celje, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and folk metal — all acoustic instrumentation clashing productively with electric fury. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.

Avant-garde black metal project from Zagreb, Croatia active since 2017. They push black metal into experimental territory from the Croatian capital.

Crafting their sound since 2012, this Treviso Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.

Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2014, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.