Dublin's Sol Axis practice black metal with an astronomical name referencing the sun's axis since 2009. Their approach channels cosmic themes through compositions of atmospheric intensity and measured aggression.

Solacide craft progressive black metal from Lahti, pushing beyond conventional black metal structures into more complex, layered territories. Active since 2013, they bring consolation-killing progressivism to the Paijat-Hame scene.

Solae practice black metal from Nuremberg, emerging in 2025 as one of the newest voices in Franconia's established black metal scene. Their solar-themed name provides an unusual contrast to the genre's typically dark imagery.

Solar Haze Experience fuse black metal with stoner metal and rock from Pfronten in the Bavarian Alps, creating a psychedelic-tinged extreme hybrid that draws from both ends of the metal spectrum. Their Alpine origins add a cosmic, mountaintop perspective to their hazy extremity.

Solar Inferno channel melodic death and black metal from Leipzig, combining the harmonic sophistication of melodeath with the atmospheric intensity of black metal. Formed in 2023, they bring stellar-themed extremity to Saxony's cultural capital.

Smolensk's Solarmace craft atmospheric post-black metal from the historic western Russian city since 2024. Their sun-weapon name and origins at a city that has withstood centuries of invasion channel radiant violence into compositions of atmospheric beauty.

Solarward craft melodic black metal from Minsk with albums like "How To Survive A Rainout" and "As The Sky Stares Down," balancing tremolo-picked intensity with expansive melodic passages. Active since 2009, they bring an atmospheric, introspective dimension to Belarusian black metal.

Solbrud practice black metal from Copenhagen, crafting immersive, atmospheric compositions that have earned them widespread acclaim in the Danish and international underground. Active since 2012, they've become one of Copenhagen's most important black metal acts, known for their expansive, emotionally powerful sound.

Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal duo formed in 1995 by multi-instrumentalist Lars Are 'Lazare' Nedland and vocalist-guitarist Cornelius Jakhelln, who named the project after an Old Norse word for 'sunset.' The band's first album The Linear Scaffold laid out their framework of black metal fused with experimental and literary influences, while Pills Against the Ageless Ills (2001) — a concept album about a pornographer and a monk — demonstrated the absurdist conceptual ambition that would define subsequent records. In Harmonia Universali (2003) featured lyrics in four languages, each song dedicated to a different historical figure or deity. Solefald have rarely performed live, preferring to exist primarily as a recording project.