Finnish black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, cemetery-themed black metal steeped in death worship and Finnish darkness.

Black metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2017. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Loire-Atlantique capital.

Black-doom metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.

One-man atmospheric black metal project from Vienna, founded in 2024 by the artist known as Oblivion. Their debut EP 'Fall of Dying Lights' explores cosmic isolation and celestial themes, blending icy black metal with vast, space-inspired atmospheres.

Budapest-based black metal project formed in 2020. Cellar Dweller crafts subterranean, cavernous black metal steeped in darkness and isolation.

Celtic black metal and folk metal band from Dublin, active since 2010. Celtachor draws deeply on Irish mythology and the Gaelic tradition, weaving folk instrumentation into fierce black metal.

Pagan black metal band from Alexandreia in northern Greece, active since 2013. They channel Celtic and pagan themes through atmospheric black metal from the Macedonian region.

Pagan black metal band from the Bremen/Delmenhorst area, Germany, formed in 2016. They channel Celtic themes and nature worship through raw, atmospheric black metal.

Celtic Frost formed in Zürich, Switzerland in June 1984 when guitarist Thomas Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Eric Ain dissolved their previous band Hellhammer and rebuilt with more ambitious musical goals. Their first two records, Morbid Tales (1984) and To Mega Therion (1985), were foundational texts for extreme metal, directly influencing the development of black, death, and doom metal. After a long hiatus, the band reformed and released the critically acclaimed Monotheist in 2006 before disbanding permanently in 2008 when Fischer departed to form Triptykon.