The Darkest Light is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary, formed in 2019. They deliver technically demanding extreme metal with precise execution and crushing heaviness.

The Dawn Razor from Paris deliver death metal that cuts with the sharpness of first light since 2018. Their compositions channel the dangerous beauty of dawn — where darkness meets light — through brutal aggression from the French capital.

Death metal/deathcore band from Minsk, Belarus, whose Bandcamp presence documents their activity within the Belarusian capital's underground extreme metal community. Minsk hosts one of Eastern Europe's more active underground metal scenes, and the band contributes a blunt-force modern death aesthetic to that landscape. Their music blends the structural density of deathcore with the raw brutality of old-school death metal.

The Deathisodes is a melodic death metal band from Portsmouth, active since 2012. Their music channels the Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal tradition through a British lens, delivering melodic guitar harmonies alongside aggressive vocals from England's historic naval port.

The Declawed is a melodic death metal band from Kotka, Finland, formed in 2012. They play melodic death metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.

The Denial from Altamura near Bari deliver death and thrash metal from the city famous for its ancient bread since 2018. Their compositions channel the refusal to submit through aggressive extremity from Puglia.

The Drowned is a death metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver submerged, crushing death metal.

The Elysian Fields is a melodic death/black metal band from Athens, active since 1998. Named after the paradise of Greek mythology, their nearly three decades of activity make them one of the more enduring melodic extreme metal acts in the Greek scene.

The Enchanted is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Bradford, West Yorkshire, formed in 2019. Their music combines melodic guitar work with the aggressive tempos of thrash, delivering a potent hybrid from the north of England.