The Fathomless Deep is an avant-garde sludge/post-metal band from the Helsinki metropolitan area, formed in 2011. They push the boundaries of sludge and post-metal with avant-garde compositional approaches.

The Gleam of Last Light is a post-metal/rock band from Athens, active since 2016. Their evocative name captures the twilight atmospherics of their post-metal, building from quiet contemplation to massive sonic crescendos.

The Great Cold is a post-metal/rock band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2016. They explore the atmospheric expansiveness of post-metal and post-rock.

The Great Procession from France deliver post-metal with the ceremonial, march-like grandeur their name demands since 2022. Their compositions unfold with the stately inevitability of a ritual progression.

The Haunting Green from Italy craft doom, post-metal, and drone exploring the eerie beauty of overgrown, abandoned spaces since 2014. A decade of verdant, spectral compositions channels nature reclaiming the built world.

The Holeum from Murcia craft post-metal and post-rock that explores vast, cavernous sonic spaces from southeastern Spain since 2016. Their name evokes a hollow, resonant void that mirrors the expansive atmospheres of their compositions.

The Misanthrope is a post-metal/ambient/mathcore band from Derby, active since 2012. Their music spans a wide sonic palette from the delicate textures of ambient to the angular aggression of mathcore, unified by a post-metal approach to dynamics and atmosphere.

The Ocean formed in Berlin, Germany in 2000 under the direction of guitarist Robin Staps, evolving into a large collective of rotating musicians that produced sprawling, conceptually ambitious post-metal. The band's discography traces geological and philosophical themes across concept album series, most notably the Precambrian diptych (2007) and the Phanerozoic sequence (2018–2020), as well as the acclaimed Pelagial (2013), a single continuous piece representing a descent through ocean depths. Their own label, Pelagic Records, grew out of the project and became a significant home for progressive and post-metal acts. Holocene (2023) marked a further conceptual departure.

The Ocean Collective is a progressive/atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2000 and released through Metal Blade Records. Their ambitious concept albums — "Precambrian," "Heliocentric/Anthropocentric," "Pelagial," and the "Phanerozoic" series — map geological epochs through expansive, intellectually ambitious post-metal.