Allendorf's Pitfall has been laying sonic traps with black metal since 2012, operating from the Hessian countryside for over a decade. Their Marburg-Biedenkopf district setting provides the rural solitude that feeds their atmospheric, nature-influenced compositions.

Experimental folk and black metal band from Avignon, France, known as one of the most controversial and artistically provocative acts in French black metal. Their sound has evolved dramatically from raw black metal into an eccentric blend of folk, punk, and avant-garde elements.

Black metal and punk band from Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2013, merging raw black metal with punk's DIY spirit. They operate at the crossover of extreme metal and punk in the Catalan underground.

Blanes's Phrymerial has been pushing technical and brutal deathcore to its limits since 2016, combining death metal's weight with deathcore's rhythmic complexity. Their Costa Brava setting provides an unlikely home for some of Spain's most technically demanding extreme music.

Black and death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2021, delivering pestilent extremity from the French capital. They bring diseased blackened death metal to the Parisian underground.

Black metal band from Faro, Portugal, formed in 2021, channeling pestilence through black metal from the Algarve coast. They bring diseased darkness to southern Portugal.

Raw black and death metal project from Denmark, formed in 2021, delivering unfiltered extremity at the intersection of black and death metal. They inhabit the most caustic fringes of the Danish underground.

Black metal band from Albi, France, formed in 2013, channeling plague-era darkness through atmospheric black metal from the Tarn department. Their name evokes the pestilence that fuels their sonic vision.

Blackened death and doom metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2018, combining the crushing weight of doom with blackened death metal ferocity. They deliver oppressive, slow-burning extremity from the Spanish Basque region.