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Mayhem
Norwegian black metal band
Q309001
American death metal band
Rotting Christ
Greek black metal band
Voyager
Australian progressive metal band
The Gathering
Dutch rock band
Samael
Swiss metal band
Carpathian Forest
Norwegian musical group; black metal band

Heilung
Heilung is a European experimental folk music band. Formed in 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the group is made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany. Their music is based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron Age and Viking Age. Heilung describe their music as "amplified history from early medieval northern Europe". Their music is usually about Germanic deities, the Jǫtnar, and valkyries. "" is a German noun meaning "healing".
1349
Norwegian musical group; black metal band
Anaal Nathrakh
British metal band
Arcturus
Norwegian metal band

The Dillinger Escape Plan
American mathcore band
Shining
Swedish musical group; black metal band

Septicflesh
Septicflesh (stylized as SepticFlesh, formerly known as Septic Flesh) are a Greek death metal band from Athens, founded in 1990.
Atheist
American death metal band
Season of Mist
French record label

Sólstafir
Sólstafir is an Icelandic post-metal band formed in 1995 and currently signed to Century Media. Originally a black metal band, they transitioned to a post-metal-influenced style with slight traces of their earlier black metal.

Garmarna
Garmarna is a Swedish folk rock band. Their songs are mainly old Scandinavian ballads.
Carach Angren
Dutch black metal band
The Casualties
American street punk band

Drudkh
Drudkh is a Ukrainian black metal band. It currently consists of Roman Saenko (of Hate Forest and formerly of Dark Ages), Thurios (former member of Astrofaes and Hate Forest), Krechet, and Vlad. All four also were members of Blood of Kingu until it was disbanded. Their lyrics and artistic themes embrace Slavic mythology and Ukrainian nationalism. Many of the band's lyrics are derived from the works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ukrainian poets (Oleksandr Oles, Oleh Olzhych, Maik Yohansen, etc.) and especially Taras Shevchenko.
Anorexia Nervosa
French symphonic black metal band
Saint Vitus
American doom metal band

Watain
Watain is a Swedish black metal band, formed in 1998. The band's name is taken from an early recording by the American black metal group Von. The band have become famous for their theistic Satanist views and for their live shows which involve pyrotechnics, candles, Satanic rituals, animal carcasses, and blood. At a now-notorious live performance in Brooklyn in 2014, they doused audience members in animal blood, allegedly causing some members of the audience to vomit. This was picked up and publicised by TMZ, generating controversy around the incident. To date they have released seven full-leng
Cynic
American progressive metal band
Eths
Eths (variably stylized as eths and ETHS) was a French metal band from Marseille, formed in 1996.
Deathspell Omega
French band
Necrophagia
Necrophagia ( ) was an American death metal band formed in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983. The band is credited as one of the inaugural groups within the death metal genre, along with Possessed and Death.
Hate Eternal
American death metal band
Deströyer 666
Australian extreme metal band
Christian Death
American gothic rock band
Shape of Despair
Finnish doom metal band
Arckanum
Arckanum was a Swedish black metal solo band formed in 1993 by Johan "Shamaatae" Lahger, who was the only constant member. Arckanum ranks among the most influential and popular in the Swedish black metal scene.

Gorguts
Gorguts is a Canadian death metal band formed near Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1989. The band has gone through various membership changes since its inception; its only constant member has been guitarist-vocalist and co-founding member Luc Lemay, who remains the driving force of the band. To date, they have released five full-length albums and one EP. Their most recent release, ''Pleiades' Dust, was released on May 13, 2016. Their latest full-length album, Colored Sands'' was released in 2013 and was nominated for a Juno Award. Musically, the band is known for its complex, dense form of technical de
Ancient Rites
Belgian black metal band
Terrorizer
Terrorizer is an American grindcore band from Los Angeles, California. It was originally formed in 1985 as Unknown Death by vocalist Oscar Garcia and guitarist Jesse Pintado. They would rename themselves Terrorizer after recruiting drummer Pete Sandoval, who remains the band's sole constant member throughout their discography, in 1986. The band's current lineup consists of Sandoval, bassist David Vincent, vocalist Brian Werner and guitarist Richie Brown. They are currently signed to Earache Records.
Macabre
American extreme metal band
Green Carnation
Norwegian metal band

Kampfar
Kampfar is a black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. According to their singer, Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan. The music of Kampfar can be described as black metal inspired by Norwegian folklore and nature. James Christopher Monger of AllMusic said the band's sound also has elements of neoclassical music and viking metal. The band is currently signed to Indie Recordings.
thumb|Singer Dolk at Rockharz Open Air 2016
thumb|Ex-bassist Jon at Rockharz 2016
Ne Obliviscaris
Australian progressive metal band
Ava Inferi
band
Rotten Sound
Finnish musical group
Tsjuder
Tsjuder is a Norwegian black metal band founded in Oslo in 1993. For the majority of the band's existence, it has functioned as a trio, including bassist/frontman Nag, guitarist Draugluin, and drummer Anti-Christian. With the latter's departure, the band operates as a duo, with Nag and Draugluin being the longterm and primary members.
Inquisition
American black metal band
Giorgos Kollias
Greek drummer
Abbath
Norwegian black metal band

Urgehal
Urgehal () is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Hønefoss in 1992 by lead guitarist/vocalist Trond Bråthen ('Trondr Nefas') and rhythm guitarist 'Enzifer'. Before their split up in 2016, they released seven full-length albums, four EPs and two demos. The band has since reformed in 2022, in honor of former members.
Dagoba
French heavy metal band

Archspire
Archspire is a Canadian technical death metal band from Vancouver. They have released four studio albums under record label Season of Mist.

Necrophobic
Necrophobic is a Swedish blackened death metal band formed in 1989 in Stockholm.
Nocturnus
Nocturnus, currently Nocturnus AD, is a Florida death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 1987 by the drummer and vocalist Mike Browning (ex–Morbid Angel).
Silent Stream of Godless Elegy
Czech musical group; folk metal band
Anata
band

Kylesa
Kylesa is an American sludge metal band that was formed in Savannah, Georgia. Their music incorporates experimentalism with heavy riffs, drop-tuned guitars and elements of psychedelic rock. The group was established in 2001 by the former members of Damad, with the addition of guitar player Laura Pleasants who is from North Carolina.

Ghost Brigade
Finnish band

Benighted
thumb|Emmanuel Dalle at RudE 2017
Sadist
Italian death metal band

Misery Index
American deathgrind band
Aborym
Aborym are an Italian industrial black metal band from Taranto, Apulia, formed in 1993. The band have described their music as "alien-black-hard/industrial", whilst Allmusic described them as playing "a truly original brand of futuristic black metal [with] jagged samples, electronic drums, and industrial overtones, mak[ing] Aborym's peculiar sound very hard to pin down or define". The name of the band derives from Haborym Sadek Aym, overseer of the twenty-six legions of Hell in a seventeenth-century grimoire.
Solefald
Solefald is a Norwegian avant-garde metal/black metal band that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Nedland singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Jakhelln singing and playing guitar and bass. The duo experiment with a wide array of musical styles, frequently work on other projects, and rarely perform live under the Solefald name, leading them to describe themselves as "two stubborn goats pretending to be a band." According to the duo, their name is an Old Norse word for "sunset," taken from one of Theodor Kittelsen