The Lithuanian city of Vilnius serves as headquarters for this progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.

The Italian city of Turin serves as headquarters for this death metal, melodic death metal, and progressive metal operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.

Progressive metal, metalcore, and rock band from Turin, active since 2017 and navigating the territory between progressive complexity and metalcore's dynamic structures. Their genre-spanning approach reflects Turin's diverse musical culture.

Underground to the core, this black metal, death metal, and progressive metal act from Budapest traffics in technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. The results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.

Progressive death metal and metalcore band from the Somerset/Wiltshire border, active since 2015 with releases including the EP Pariah and Divine Self Invention. Their sound bridges the technical complexity of progressive death metal with metalcore's dynamic structures.

Progressive death/black metal project from Graz formed in 2023, debuting with the release From Ashes to Ecstasy. Their approach merges the technical complexity of progressive metal with the aggression of extreme metal.

Progressive death metal band from Athens, formed in 2024 and pursuing the technical ambition and compositional complexity that define the progressive end of the death metal spectrum. Their approach favors intricate arrangements and dynamic range.

Progressive doom metal band from Brighton, formed in 2014 and releasing their album Debt of Aeons on Aural Music in 2018. Their sound has been described as "grimy progressive doom with moments of epic melody," pairing powerful, emotionally charged vocals with heavy riffs and bluesy, jazz-inflected passages.

Straddling the line between progressive metal and thrash metal, this Italian actfrom Ancona fuses polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2025, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.