Death Metal - Poland 🇵🇱 - Willowtip Records - Key Songs: Horse Eater, Solvent, Dust Crown, Against the Dying of the Light - Rating: 8.5

Progressive Post-Metal - Belgium 🇧🇪, Pelagic Records - Key Songs: You Are The Sky, And You Came with Searing Lights, Origins, Endless Erosion - Rating: 8.5

Extreme Progressive Metal - Sweden 🇸🇪 - Willowtip Records - Key Songs: No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons, Like a Geyser Ever Erupting, Emmett - Rating: 8.3

Prog Doom Metal - Italy 🇮🇹 - Metal Blade Records - Key Songs: Fire on the Roof, Immolation, The Dress - Rating: 8.25

Experimental Post-Rock - France 🇫🇷 - Pelagic Records - Key Songs: Progress/Regress, Technoslavery/Vandalism, The Intoxication of Power - Rating: 8.25

Progressive Death Metal - Canada 🇨🇦 - Self-released - Key Songs: Cauterize, Between the Graves of Grief, To Dust - Rating: 8.2

Progressive Technical Death Metal - Germany 🇩🇪 - Season of Mist - Key Songs: Falling in Circles, Changeling, Anathema - Rating: 8.2

Avantgarde Death Metal - France 🇫🇷 - Metal Blade Records - Key Songs: Infestis, Pure Disproportionate Black and White Nihilism - Rating: 8.2

Post-Black - France 🇫🇷 - Agonia Records - Key Songs: Entwined Conundrum, Diapsalmata, The Renouncer - Rating: 8.1

Blackened Post-Metal - USA 🇺🇸 - Roadrunner Records - Key Songs: Magnolia, Revelator, Wynona - Rating: 8.1