Black metal project from Oslo, Norway, emerging in 2024 and adding to the capital city's legendary black metal lineage. Their Oslo origins carry the weight of the genre's most storied birthplace.

Pagan and black metal project from Polva in southeastern Estonia, blending heathen themes with black metal's sonic fury since 2020. Their work draws from Baltic pagan traditions, infusing black metal with the spiritual heritage of the Estonian countryside.

Thrash, death, and black metal band from Massa in Tuscany, Italy, active since 2012 and blending three extreme subgenres into a stinging assault. Their name, derived from the irritating quality of nettles, mirrors the abrasive nature of their multi-genre extremity.

Urtiden is a blackened heavy metal and punk project from Norrkoping, Sweden, explicitly anti-Nazi in stance, inspired by classic Swedish metal bands like Jonah Quizz and Mindless Sinner. Their 2021 album Iron Age Nomad Axe was entirely recorded, mastered, and performed by a member credited as Holm.

Urugia is a raw black metal project from Chrzanow, Poland, dealing exclusively in demo-level recordings since 2010. Their catalogue of demos and splits, including Forest Winter and Death is my Lord, embraces an uncompromising lo-fi approach to black metal.

Raw black metal project from Madrid named after Tolkien's orc fortress, delivering lo-fi, abrasive extremity since 2024. Their stripped-down sound embraces the raw aesthetic of underground black metal with fantasy-inspired thematic content.

Black metal project from Milan, Italy, named after Tolkien's dark fortress, active since 2024. Their sound channels black metal's atmospheric darkness through the lens of fantasy-inspired themes.

German black metal project active since 2019, channeling the genre's core elements of tremolo-picked riffs, blast beats, and atmospheric darkness. Their work maintains the underground ethos that defines European black metal's continuing tradition.

Urvasen is a Swedish black metal project whose 2023 debut Faror delivers five tracks of atmospheric Scandinavian black metal on cassette and digital formats. The project has drawn literary comparisons, with fans noting that Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun would have appreciated its sound.