Cypriot black metal band from Nicosia, active since 2017 and representing the island's underground extreme scene. Their funeral-themed name channels the mournful, death-focused character of their black metal.

Pietarsaari melodic death metal act active since 2020, hailing from Finland's Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia coast. Their melodeath draws equally from the Finnish and Swedish traditions of the genre, befitting their bilingual coastal origins.

Bury St. Edmunds outfit Obsesa pounds out groove metal with a raw, DIY intensity rooted in the UK underground. Their riff-centric attack draws from the Pantera and Crowbar school of crushing rhythmic heaviness.

Obsidian Kingdom is a progressive and post-metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2005, whose sound has been characterized as drawing equally from progressive rock, post-metal, black metal, alternative, and electronic music. Their 2012 debut Mantiis drew attention for its eclectic approach, while A Year with No Summer (2016) on Season of Mist refined the band's identity into something genuinely difficult to categorize. MEAT MACHINE (2020) pushed the band further into industrial and alternative territory, cementing their reputation as one of Spain's most adventurous extreme music outfits.

German post-black metal band from Cologne, blending atmospheric beauty with blackened intensity since 2016. Their sharp, cutting name channels the precision of their post-black metal approach.

Symphonic metal band from Nagykáta, Hungary, active since 2008. Their long-running project delivers orchestral metal from the small town east of Budapest.

Leipzig black metal/punk hybrid formed in 2024, welding blackened ferocity to punk's confrontational energy. Saxony's capital has long nurtured crossover acts that blur genre boundaries, and this project continues that lineage.

Symphonic black/death metal band from Italy's Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, with roots dating to 1999. Over two decades of orchestral extreme metal from the northeastern Italian borderlands.

Obsidious is a German technical and progressive death metal band formed in 2020 by three former members of Obscura — guitarist Rafael Trujillo, bassist Linus Klausenitzer, and drummer Sebastian Lanser — joined by vocalist Javi Perera. The band coalesced immediately following their amicable departure from Obscura and quickly signed to Season of Mist, releasing their debut album Iconic, which carried forward the intricate, melodically sophisticated approach to technical death metal cultivated in their prior work with Obscura and Alkaloid.