Rome's Serpi in Seno play heavy metal with an Italian name meaning "serpents in the bosom" since 2023. This idiomatic expression for hidden treachery gives their traditional metal a distinctly Italian literary flavor.

Serum 114 is a Frankfurt-based German punk rock band formed in 2006, drawing primary influence from Social Distortion while delivering socially and politically charged lyrics in German. Fronted by vocalist Esche, the band built a devoted following over more than fifteen years and eight releases, with the album Die Nacht mein Freund (2016) reaching number three on the German charts. Their 2020 album Im Zeichen der Zeit was released through Napalm Records and continued their streak of chart success, while a 2022 acoustic EP Zuhause Unplugged demonstrated the range of Esche's songwriting stripped of electric instrumentation.

Servants to the Tide are a Hamburg-based epic doom metal outfit featuring keyboards alongside traditional guitar work, creating a symphonic dimension to their crushing heaviness. Albums like "Where Time Will Come To Die" showcase their ability to blend orchestral grandeur with the genre's monolithic weight.

Servator deliver death/thrash metal from Helmstedt on the former Inner German Border, channeling aggressive extremity from a town once divided between East and West. Active since 2010, their border-town origins lend a particular edge to their dual-genre attack.

Moscow's Servators play heavy metal from the Russian capital since 2010. Their Latin name meaning "preservers" channels the act of safeguarding into traditional metal compositions from Europe's largest city.

Served Cold play metalcore and deathcore from Schongau in the Bavarian Alps, combining punishing breakdowns with the scenic backdrop of the Lech Valley. Formed in 2022, they bring modern heaviness to one of Upper Bavaria's most picturesque regions.

Service Geriatrie burst onto the French brutal death metal scene in 2023 with a darkly humorous name belying genuinely punishing sonic output. Their blasting, guttural approach sits firmly within the gore-obsessed end of the death metal spectrum.

Set Up to Fail deliver melodic death metal from the Arctic city of Rovaniemi, combining Scandinavian melodeath's harmonic sophistication with the doomed inevitability their name suggests. Active since 2013, they bring Arctic Circle intensity to the Finnish melodeath landscape.

Seth is a French black metal band founded in Bordeaux in 1995, emerging as one of the leading acts of the French extreme metal underground with their 1998 debut Les Blessures de l'Âme. The band's sound balances hauntingly melodic passages with aggressive orthodox black metal structures, and their lyrical themes draw from religious transgression, historical atrocity, and French cultural mythology. After a decade-long hiatus following their 2005 split, Seth reformed in 2011 and continued releasing albums, with La France des Maudits arriving in 2024, a conceptual work inspired by the violence of the French Revolution.