Firmly rooted in progressive metal, this Italian actfrom Taranto delivers polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages without compromise. They've been at it since 2014, and uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.

Exploring the depths of power metal and progressive metal, this Italian outfit from Casarsa della Delizia has been refining their craft since 2007. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with stubborn authenticity.

Avant-garde progressive sludge metal band from Espoo, Finland active since 2013, blending doom, drone, doomjazz, and progressive elements. Their 2025 album Inexorable Decay continues a catalog stretching back to Lost Light (2013) and False (2014).

Death, progressive, and thrash metal band from Poitiers, France formed in 2018. They blend technical ambition with extreme metal aggression from the Vienne region.

A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Moscow-based death metal and progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2016, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.

Roman progressive power/thrash metal band formed in 2000, with a discography spanning The Orwell Legacy, Forces of Denial, NonEuclidean, The Onyx Path EP, and 2024's Vertenebra. Self-described as focusing on songs that balance ferocity with melody, their five releases across two decades demonstrate a commitment to evolving their technical metal vision.

Zaandam / Purmerend-based progressive metal act, active since 2017 delivering technical virtuosity in service of expansive, cinematic narratives. Rooted in a country that punches well above its weight in extreme metal, their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.

Straddling the line between heavy metal and progressive metal, this Russian actfrom Kursk fuses polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.

Death metal and progressive metal band from England formed in 2021. They blend technical complexity with death metal brutality.