Legendary Italian grindcore act from Asti, Piedmont, with Bandcamp activity since 2012 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Cripple Bastards are one of Italy's most influential and prolific extreme acts.

Founded in Bristol in 2004 by Justin Greaves, a veteran of Iron Monkey and Electric Wizard, Crippled Black Phoenix is a sprawling, ever-shifting collective whose music resists easy categorization — roaming across post-rock, dark folk, psychedelia, and progressive rock in epic, elegiac compositions the band themselves call "endtime ballads." With a revolving cast of nearly thirty members and a string of ambitious albums including I, Vigilante (2012) and Ellengæst (2020), they have carved out an indelible space in adventurous heavy music as one of the UK's most singular and emotionally resonant ensembles.

Crossover thrash and power-thrash act from Budapest, active since 2009. Crippled Fox combines high-speed thrash riffing with punk energy and melodic power metal elements.

Death metal band from eastern Finland, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from the remote Finnish countryside.

Black-sludge metal band from Scotland, formed in 2023. They fuse black metal darkness with sludge metal's oppressive weight.

Death-thrash band from Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, formed in 2023. Crippling Madness brings extreme metal to the Podlasie border region.

Doom metal act from Ravenna, formed in 2021. Cripta Blue — blending crypt imagery with blue melancholy — crafts slow, sorrowful doom from Emilia-Romagna.

Black metal project from Perugia, Umbria, active since 2015. Criptum channels dark, atmospheric black metal from central Italy.

Death-thrash band from Vicenza, active since 2012. Crisalide — Italian for 'chrysalis' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.