Part of Holland's dense concentration of metal talent, this act channels black metal and drone metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2013, based in North Holland, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.

Drone/doom/black/death metal project from Dusseldorf, formed in 2020 and pushing extreme metal into its most crushing, hypnotic territory. Their multi-genre approach spans the heaviest and most experimental reaches of metal.

Drone/doom/sludge metal outfit from Newcastle upon Tyne, formed in 2006 and drawing comparisons to Corrupted, Khanate, and Burning Witch. Since their formation they have "fervently explored the boundaries of esoteric music, from minimalist noise to live improvisation and psychedelic mantra," channeling aggravated sludge and noise into punishing compositions.

Sludge/drone/doom metal and noise band from Kiel, formed in 2019 and exploring the most experimental reaches of extreme heaviness. Their sound pushes past conventional song structures into territory where sludge, drone, and noise converge.

Drone/doom metal project from Lower Saxony, formed in 2023 and exploring the most meditative, hypnotic reaches of extreme heaviness. Their cosmic-named project delivers vast, slow-moving compositions that hover between drone and doom.

Heavy duo from Norwich featuring Jade Ashleigh Squires and Thom Longdin, blending doom, sludge, drone, and psychedelic elements since 2018 on Church Road Records. Their albums Here Lies Kulk, We Spare Nothing, and It Gets Worse build atmospheric, crushing compositions from a deceptively minimal two-piece setup.

German project from Dresden that evolved from black metal origins in 2018 into ambient/drone/stoner/doom territory. Their genre-shifting approach spans the full spectrum from extreme metal hostility to meditative, atmospheric heaviness.

Madness Blues is a blackened funeral doom metal and drone band from Greece, formed in 2023. They craft crushing, glacially paced extremity at the intersection of funeral doom and drone.

Malasangre is a sludge, drone, and funeral doom metal band from Voghera, Italy, formed in 2019. Their Italian name meaning "bad blood" captures the suffocating heaviness of their drone-doom.