Sions Funeral deliver melodic death metal from Neheim in the Sauerland, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with their own Westphalian character. Active since 2012, they bring emotional intensity and harmonic sophistication to the North Rhine-Westphalia extreme scene.

Sisters of Suffocation is an all-female death metal band from Eindhoven, Netherlands, founded in 2014 by vocalist Els Prins and guitarist Simone van Straten with the explicit goal of building a women-fronted extreme metal act. The band released their debut EP Brutal Queen independently in 2016, followed by their full-length Anthology of Curiosities (2017) and Humans Are Broken (2019) on Napalm Records. Their straightforward death metal approach, free of novelty or genre dilution, earned them performances at major European festivals alongside recognition as one of the more authentic acts to emerge from the Dutch extreme metal underground in the 2010s.

Sisyfos deal in death metal from the Arctic city of Rovaniemi, their mythological name (the man condemned to roll a boulder eternally) reflecting the relentless, repetitive crushing of their sound. Formed in 2019, they bring Sisyphean extremity to Lapland.

Death metal/hardcore crossover band from Zonhoven in Belgian Limburg, formed in 2023. Their fusion of death metal brutality and hardcore aggression creates a punishing hybrid rooted in the extreme underground of the Flemish countryside.

Six Reasons to Kill evolved from metalcore origins into a more melodic death metal direction, tracing a trajectory from breakdown-driven aggression toward Scandinavian-influenced melodeath. Based in Koblenz since 2000, they've been a defining force in the Rhineland-Palatinate heavy music scene for over two decades.

Reykjavik's Sjálfsmorð af Gáleysi merge black, death, and doom metal with an Icelandic name meaning "suicide by negligence" since 2018. Their harrowing thematic scope is matched by music of profound heaviness and desolation.

Astrakhan's Skaffold pair melodic thrash and death metal from the Caspian port city since 2015. Their construction-scaffold name and Volga Delta origins channel the framework of industrial assembly into compositions of dual-genre aggression.

Viennese death/black metal project whose 2024 demo "Abyssalorum" channels the spectral unrest of Vienna's graveyards through four tracks of atmospheric extremity. Released on Urban Lurk, their sound conjures themes of perpetual damnation with an abyssal, macabre intensity that evokes the darkest corners of the city's history.

Dublin's Skewered deliver brutal death metal with the impaling violence their name implies since 2007. Nearly two decades of Irish extremity have honed their sound to a razor-sharp point of uncompromising brutality.