Jihlava thrash/death metal stalwarts active since 2005, representing two decades of extreme metal from the Vysocina Highlands. Their longevity in the Czech underground speaks to a dedication that predates many of their contemporaries.

Occult death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2019 and signed to The Sinister Flame label, with members from the band Domains. Their albums Novus Lux Dominus and Ater Ignis deliver serpentine, ceremonial death metal distinguished from caverncore by twisted songwriting and eldritch atmospherics across 45-minute compositions.

Black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, active since 2018. The project delivers hostile black metal from the Polish capital.

German black metal band from Mainz, active since 2018. Their Latin name, meaning 'rise' or 'origin,' channels the dawning, emergent character of their Rhineland black metal.

Cambrai's Oruga generates a suffocating wall of low-tuned heaviness where sludge, stoner, and doom metal converge into a crushing mass. Their riff-worshipping approach piles distortion upon distortion, creating tar-thick grooves that move with glacial inevitability.

Black metal project from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019. The project delivers hostile black metal from the Hungarian capital.

Black metal project from Trevi in Italy's Umbria region, active since 2015. The project channels black metal from the medieval hilltop town in central Italy.

German black metal band from Eckental in Franconia, active since 2020. Their cryptic name adds an element of mystery to their Franconian black metal approach.

Miranda de Ebro death/thrash metal act from the Castile-Burgos border, active since 2013. Over a decade in this small northern Spanish city, they have built a body of extreme metal rooted in both death and thrash traditions.