Deathcore band from Athens, Greece emerging in 2025. Winds of Desolation delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural intensity from the Greek capital's growing extreme metal scene.

Black metal band from Taranto, Italy formed in 2020. Winds of Funeral delivers dark black metal from the steel city on the Ionian coast of Puglia.

Crust and death metal band from Durham, England formed in 2022. Winds of Genocide merges crust punk's raw fury with death metal's guttural extremity from the northeast of England.

Melodic death and folk/pagan metal project from Ostrava, Czech Republic led by Radim Kubánek with guitarist Stanislav Bárta. Their 2022 debut EP The Forlorn Path weaves folk melodies and pagan themes into melodic death metal, exploring journeys of breaking free from expectation and forging one's own path.

Windswept is a Ukrainian black metal trio from Kharkiv, formed in 2017 by Roman Sayenko of Drudkh alongside longtime collaborators. The project operates within classic Eastern European black metal aesthetics, emphasizing raw live-feel recording and improvisation rather than studio polish. Their debut The Great Cold Steppe (2017) and second album The Onlooker (2019, Season of Mist) drew from the bleak landscapes of the region, while The Devil's Vertep (2025) took a historically grounded concept — reconstructing the witch trials of 1753–1754 in Western Ukraine — as its thematic framework.

Black metal band from Södermanland, Sweden formed in 2019. Windthrow channels the fallen forests of the Swedish lowlands into raw atmospheric black metal.

Blackened epic doom metal band from Gävle, Sweden active since 2014. Windwalker fuses the grandeur of epic doom with black metal's atmospheric darkness from the Norrland coast.

Black metal band from Oulu, Finland active since 2014. Wingchapel channels the extreme cold and darkness of northern Finland's Arctic proximity into atmospheric black metal.

Depressive black metal project from Finland formed in 2023. Wingloug explores the bleakest emotional depths through DSBM steeped in the melancholy of the Finnish psyche.