Groove and death metal band from Czestochowa, Poland, formed in 2021, delivering infectious heaviness from the city famous for its Black Madonna shrine. They bring rhythmic aggression to the Lesser Poland region.

Active since 1999 from the small Toledo-province village of Segurilla, Profecía has been blending heavy metal with folk elements for over a quarter century. Their remarkable longevity in rural Castilla-La Mancha makes them one of the region's most enduring metal acts.

Named after the connecting rod in an engine, Wittgensdorf's Pleuel delivers heavy metal with mechanical precision since 2014. Their Saxon industrial-town origins and automotive namesake perfectly suit their piston-driving approach to classic metal.

Death and groove metal band from Lapinlahti and Iisalmi, Finland, formed in 2016, whose name means 'warriors of the north.' They bring battle-hardened death and groove metal from the Savo region.

Berlin's Ploutonion emerged in 2022 with death metal named after the ancient Greek portal to the underworld. Their capital-city base provides access to Berlin's deep well of extreme metal talent, and their classical reference suggests lyrical ambitions beyond the genre's typical fare.

Active since 2010, Bern's Polestar has spent over a decade refining their take on Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal. Their patient approach to releases suggests a commitment to quality over quantity, each output carefully honed within the Swiss capital's tight-knit metal community.

One-man melodic death and black metal project from Brest, Belarus, created by Robert (Enotovich) in 2020 as a continuation of the earlier Aztaroth project. All guitar parts are recorded by a single person, resulting in releases like Insomnia and Winter Is Coming.

Sludge, heavy, and death metal band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2020, whose name means 'many-headed.' They deliver multi-faceted heaviness combining sludge, heavy, and death metal from the Latvian capital.

Gothic, death, and doom metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, active since 2008, whose Ukrainian name means 'wormwood field.' Over seventeen years of dark, atmospheric metal from western Ukraine.