One of Finland's most prominent melodic death metal bands, Omnium Gatherum have been active from Kotka since 2011, releasing through multiple labels and performing at festivals across Europe. Their extensive catalog includes New World Shadows, Beyond, Grey Heavens, and the 2025 album May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way, with festival dates booked through 2026.

Helsinki technical death metal act formed in 2020, contributing to Finland's increasingly prominent tech-death scene. Their approach favors precision, speed, and compositional complexity within a brutally heavy framework.

Zurich death metal act operating since 2008, known for technically precise and brutally executed compositions. With roots in Switzerland's largest city, they have had access to the country's most active metal scene and have developed accordingly.

Varazdin progressive/blackened death metal act from northern Croatia, active since 2020. Their fusion of progressive complexity with blackened death metal aggression represents the more ambitious end of the Croatian extreme metal spectrum.

Marseille's On the Edge throws together death, groove, thrash, and melodic death metal into a high-energy crossover that keeps one foot in old-school aggression and the other in modern heaviness. Their tight, riff-centric songwriting owes as much to Lamb of God and Gojira as it does to classic thrash.

One of the most enduring names in Greek metal, On Thorns I Lay has evolved dramatically since emerging in the early 1990s with crushing death-doom before transitioning through gothic metal into atmospheric, melancholic territory. Albums like "Orama" and "Aegean Sorrow" showcase their gift for sorrowful melody and emotional depth.

Death/thrash metal band from Amersfoort, the Netherlands, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers aggressive death-thrash crossover from the Utrecht province city.

Once upon the End frames their Parisian metal in a post-apocalyptic narrative, describing themselves as survivors blasting music amid civilization's ruins. Drawing from death metal ferocity, melodic death hooks, and power metal grandeur, their albums like "Ensevelis" and "Archive 200" build a conceptual world of decay and resilience.

Northern Irish act Oncology from Coleraine specializes in punishing brutal death metal with slam influences, piling on guttural vocals and churning, downtuned riffs. Their clinical approach to sonic devastation lives up to their pathological namesake.