Athens' Archemoron merge black and death metal into compositions of ritualistic intensity and philosophical depth. Active since 2018, their name evokes the concept of a primordial leader, fitting for their authoritative approach to extreme metal.

Archeon creates melodic death and power metal from Warsaw since 2014. Their archaeological name — evoking ancient eons — drives compositions that unearth the past through the combined force of two melodic metal traditions.

Based in Mohelnice, Archeonic were formed by two members of the dissolved technical death metal band Scenery, and debuted with the EP The 16th Dimension before releasing their first full-length Digital Pain in January 2022. The album's nine tracks blend groove, death, and thrash metal influences across roughly 40 minutes, channeling the band's roots in technical extreme metal.

Archetype X attacks from Barcelona with a potent blend of melodic death metal, death metal, and metalcore influences, representing the modern extreme sound of Catalonia since 2019. Their crossover approach speaks to a generation raised on both classic Scandinavian melodeath and contemporary heaviness.

Architect of Pain merges thrash and heavy metal that has evolved toward death metal from Novi Sad since 2019. Their construction-of-suffering name drives compositions that build increasingly brutal structures.

Architect of Seth delivers technical death metal from the Norman city of Caen since 2013, their Egyptian-mythological name referencing the god of chaos and destruction. Their technically demanding approach brings precision engineering to death metal's most brutal dimensions.

Architects of Aeon is an atmospheric death and doom metal band from Leinefelde-Worbis in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2017, whose extensive catalog includes the releases Pharos EP, Koloss, Nothing to Pursue, Irrlicht, and Dead Dreamer. The band frames their apocalyptic, cinematic sound around themes of ruined worlds and new beginnings.

Architype explores progressive and brutal death metal from Saint Petersburg since 2011. Their design-pattern name drives over a decade of structurally ambitious compositions from Russia's architectural masterpiece of a city.

Archont are an Austrian black/death metal project who take their name from the Gnostic demiurgic rulers — a conceptual angle that filters into dark, esoteric lyrical themes and a sound that blends the tremolo-driven dissonance of black metal with the brutish density of death metal. Their music is deliberately confrontational and theologically provocative.