Black metal project from Hungary, formed in 2014. The project explores the darker reaches of black metal with releases including "Seal of pain," drawing from diverse influences while maintaining an uncompromising extreme metal core.

Pagan black metal band from Blanzy, France, formed in 2022. The project channels pre-Christian European spiritual traditions through raw black metal, evoking ancient rites and seasonal darkness in their atmospheric approach.

Psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from London, England, formed in 2018 with releases including "Wooden Lungs" and their self-titled album. The band channels heavy, riff-laden stoner doom with psychedelic overtones, conjuring a hazy, head-nodding heaviness.

YUNGBLUD is the musical identity of Dominic Harrison, a Doncaster-born artist who built his reputation by fusing punk energy, alternative rock, pop hooks, and hip-hop cadence into a loud, theatrical form of youth-oriented rock. Early singles and the 2018 album 21st Century Liability framed him as a restless voice for outsiders, using jagged guitars, rapid-fire vocals, and confrontational lyrics about anxiety, identity, politics, and alienation. The Underrated Youth EP and weird! expanded the emotional range, pairing pop punk urgency with more vulnerable writing about community, queerness, mental health, and belonging. His self-titled album leaned into bigger rock production, while later material, including IDOLS, pushed toward grander, classic-rock-scaled arrangements without dropping the rebellious tone that defines his persona. YUNGBLUD's music is as much about communal release as genre purity: shouted choruses, theatrical visuals, and live shows built around connection. His work sits at the intersection of modern alternative rock and pop punk, carrying the attitude of punk into a mainstream-facing format.

Black/death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2019 with a misanthropic and Satanic lyrical focus. Their releases including "Misanthropic Impulse," "Satanic Fortification Overbalance," and the Swedish-language "Inverterat Korståg" showcase aggressive Swedish extreme metal.

Atmospheric black/folk metal band from Cheltenham, England, formed in 2018 and featuring Clare Webster on vocals and harp alongside Rob George on guitars and Sean Brazil on bass and violin. Their debut album "The Wood Beyond the World" weaves harp-laden atmospheric black metal with symphonic and neoclassical elements across nearly an hour of music.

French extreme metal band from Amiens, formed in 2023, whose evolution spans from early symphonic black metal to a later death/thrash metal approach. Named after a character from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga, the band's stylistic shift reflects a restless creative spirit within the French metal underground.

Black/death metal band from the Auvergne region of France, formed in 2017 with a fully DIY approach to their craft. Their debut EP "First Bloodshed" features six tracks of self-recorded, self-mixed, and self-mastered extreme metal, with compositions averaging seven minutes in length.