Cold, unrelenting black metal from Gävle, active since 2019. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.

Saint Petersburg-based folk-infused black metal act active since 2009, weaving traditional melodies and acoustic passages into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions draw from Saint Petersburg's cultural traditions, bridging ancient folklore with modern aggression.

Forged in 2004 from Chernivtsi, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.

Spanish black metal band from Granada in Andalusia, active since 2009. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

French black metal project formed in 2025. They deliver battalion-strength black metal from the French underground.

Black metal project from Gjøvik, emerging in 2017. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Norwegian origins.

Bergamo-based black metal act active in the underground, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Italian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.

Bathory was a Swedish extreme metal band from Vällingby, formed in March 1983 by sole constant member Thomas Forsberg, known as Quorthon, whose first four albums—raw, lo-fi, and openly Satanic—are regarded as foundational documents of Scandinavian black metal. Beginning with Blood Fire Death (1988) and fully realized on Hammerheart (1990), Quorthon pivoted to an epic, Norse-mythology-driven style that effectively created Viking metal as a subgenre. Quorthon died of heart failure in June 2004 at age 38, ending the band; his two-decade body of work remains among the most influential in extreme metal.

One-man black metal project from the Wirral and Liverpool area, run by Wyvern since 2016. Releases including Rituals of the Damned and The Church of Euthanasia explore occult and misanthropic themes through raw, solitary UK black metal.