Dominion III is an Austrian industrial electronic project created in 1998 by Alexander Opitz (known as Tharen), also the founder of the gothic project Dargaard. The project serves as Opitz's vehicle for heavier, guitar-driven industrial expression, incorporating black metal elements and post-apocalyptic atmosphere alongside vocalist Elisabeth Toriser. Their debut album The Hand and the Sword (2000) on Draenor Productions was followed by Life Has Ended Here (2002) on Napalm Records.

Eihwar is a French pagan folk and electronic duo from Toulouse, formed in 2023 by Asrunn and Mark. The project combines Nordic folk vocals, ritual chanting, shamanic percussion, and electronic trance production into what the band describes as 'Viking War Trance.' Despite their recent formation, they released the album Ragnarök in 2023 on Season of Mist and have performed at major European festivals including Wacken Open Air and Hellfest.

Techno Animal was formed in London in 1990 by Justin Broadrick (Godflesh) and Kevin Martin (The Bug), combining industrial noise, dub, dark ambient, and hip-hop into an early example of what would later be called illbient. Their debut Ghosts appeared in 1991, with subsequent albums released through Virgin Records, and the project disbanded in 2001 after six LPs spanning a decade. Broadrick and Martin reunited in 2017 under the name Zonal, continuing the sonic legacy of Techno Animal in a new context.

Theodor Bastard formed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1996 under the direction of founder Fedor Svoloch, adopting the current band name in 1999 as an English rendering of his stage pseudonym. The project is defined by the distinctive soprano vocals of Yana Veva, who frequently sings in invented languages and rare world tongues, layered over a palette of cello, harp, theremin, synthesizers, and ethnic percussion that blends neofolk with dark wave and trip hop. Albums including Pustota (2004), Oikoumene (2012), Vetvi (2015), and Volch'ya Yagoda (2020) have been released across five countries, and the band has performed at European festivals including Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Castle Party. Their work for the game Pathologic 2 (2017) introduced them to a new international audience.