Thrash metal outfit from Innsbruck, Austria, formed in 2020. The band channels aggressive riffing and high-energy tempos in the classic European thrash tradition, building a following in the Austrian underground metal scene.

Progressive metal band from Messina, Italy, formed in 2015. The project delivers technically ambitious progressive metal with an emphasis on complex compositions and dynamic songwriting, part of Sicily's growing metal scene.

Black metal band from Venice, Italy, formed in 2012 by multi-instrumentalist Pietro Baldan who handles vocals, guitar, and bass. Evolving from early raw black metal into symphonic black metal territory, the project has released four records including the 2023 album "Lust For Domination," recorded entirely in Tenerife as a limited 30-copy CD run.

Death metal band from Gdansk, Poland, formed in 2018 with releases on Season of Mist including "Murder's Concept." Known for their brutal and technical approach, the band has evolved from straightforward death metal into more experimental territory, delivering complex riffs and pummeling drums in the tradition of Necrophagist and Cryptopsy.

Black metal band from Enschede, Netherlands, formed in 2014 and named after the villainous character from Magic: The Gathering lore. The project delivers cold, unrelenting black metal from the eastern Netherlands underground.

Black/death metal act from Boom, Belgium, formed in 2025. One of the newest entries in the Belgian extreme metal underground, Ycon fuses the ferocity of death metal with black metal's atmospheric darkness across their early releases.

Thrash metal and crustcore band from Kuusamo, Finland, active since 2008 with a prolific run of demos, EPs, and split releases. Their raw d-beat and hardcore punk-infused thrash delivers short, ferocious bursts of energy, with releases on labels like Ground Zero 93600 and Nightstick Justice Records.

Founded after a night at a pirate-themed bar in Umeå, Sweden in 2008 by Björn Malmros and Peter Mollwing, Ye Banished Privateers have grown into a collective of nearly thirty musicians performing sea shanties, folk rock, and folk metal built around 17th- and 18th-century piracy and maritime history. Their live performances blend music with theatrical costume and staging, functioning as a hybrid of concert and historical reenactment. After self-releasing Songs and Curses (2012), the band eventually signed with Napalm Records and released Hostis Humani Generis (2020) and 'Til the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead (2025).

Formed in Norrköping, Sweden around 2006 by Thomas Sabbathi, Year of the Goat operate within the occult rock tradition, fusing proto-metal heaviness, psychedelic hard rock, and gothic doom with esoteric lyrical themes in the lineage of Blue Öyster Cult, Witchfinder General, and In Solitude. Their debut Angels' Necropolis (2012) established the template, and the subsequent albums The Unspeakable (2015) and Novis Orbis Terrarum Ordinis (2019) sustained critical recognition within heavy rock and doom circles. The 2025 album Trivia Goddess, released through Napalm Records, took the historically documented persecution of women by religious and patriarchal power as its conceptual framework.