Named after the Hill of Sight from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Amon Hen wove death, doom, and gothic metal together from Castellón de la Plana between 1995 and 2003. Their philosophical and fantasy-themed lyrics were carried by a sound that balanced crushing weight with mournful atmosphere.

Among Rats are an old-school death metal and grindcore band from Ohlsdorf in Upper Austria, active since 2011 with releases including the self-titled EP, Intact World (2013), Game Over (2015), and A.R. (2016). Their sound is rooted in the blunt, short-format extremity of classic grindcore, and they continue to release new material as recently as 2024.

Metal band from Fribourg, Switzerland, with roots going back over five studio albums and 300-plus concerts before a 2019 rebranding toward a darker, more haunting sound. Their 2022 EP "Follow Blindly," produced by Vladimir Cochet at Conatus Studios, draws on death metal and hardcore influences to address themes of blind obedience and societal complicity.

Melodic death metal band formed in Novopolotsk, Belarus in 2014, later relocating to Gdańsk, Poland in 2022. Their sound pairs heavy, riff-driven instrumentation and melodic guitar solos with prominent female vocals, and their albums include "Flight to Immortality," "Your Choice," and "Before the Dawn."

Athens' AmongRuins forge melodic death metal with emotional depth and technical proficiency, balancing Scandinavian-influenced harmonies with Mediterranean passion. Since 2015, they've developed a sound that stands among the best of Greece's melodeath scene.

Originally formed in 1997, Helsinki's Amoral evolved from progressive death metal into increasingly melodic territory across seven studio albums before their farewell show at Tavastia Club in 2017. Their 2024 reunion signals new life for a band that helped define Finland's progressive metal scene.

Amorbital delivers death metal from Humenné in eastern Slovakia since 1991. Over three decades from this Laborec River town near the Polish and Ukrainian borders, they have maintained one of Slovakia's oldest death metal legacies.

Amorgen merges melodic death metal with folk elements from Dordrecht since 2011. Named after the mythological Celtic poet-warrior, they bring Gaelic resonance to their South Holland compositions over more than a decade of activity.

From the small Komárom-Esztergom town of Ács, Amorite has unleashed death metal since 2015. Named after the ancient Mesopotamian people, they bring an unexpected pocket of brutality to rural western Hungary.