The Clearing Path from Milan deliver progressive black metal that navigates through dense sonic forests since 2015. A decade of path-finding compositions from Italy's financial capital.

The Conjuring is a black metal band from Athens, active since 2013. Their music delivers dark, ritualistic black metal from the Greek capital, evoking supernatural invocation through extreme sonic intensity.

The Dark Overlords conjure blackened death metal from somewhere in Denmark, ruling over a domain of extreme darkness since 2021. Their imperious name drives compositions of commanding, overlord-worthy brutality.

The Dead Dirt conjure raw black metal from an undisclosed location in Germany, formed in 2025 as one of the country's newest black metal entities. Their name evokes the grave-soil earthiness they channel through lo-fi, primal compositions.

The Elysian Fields is a melodic death/black metal band from Athens, active since 1998. Named after the paradise of Greek mythology, their nearly three decades of activity make them one of the more enduring melodic extreme metal acts in the Greek scene.

The Enochian is a melodic black metal band from Larissa, Greece, formed in 2026. Named after the angelic language system of John Dee, their music channels occult mysticism through melodic black metal compositions.

The Evershed Effect from Suhl in Thuringia blend progressive black metal, death metal, and deathcore into a technically demanding hybrid named after a solar physics phenomenon. Active since 2013, their scientific namesake — describing spectral line shifts in sunspot observations — reflects the precision they bring to extreme metal from the Thuringian Forest.

The Fallen Angel is a melodic black metal project from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024. They blend melodic elements with black metal's atmospheric intensity.

The Fals from the tiny village of Otzenhausen in the Saarland craft blackened heavy metal that fuses classic metal's melodic power with black metal's atmospheric darkness since 2019. Their rural Hunsrück setting lends an isolated, forest-shrouded quality to their sound.