Avantgarde Metal / Progressive Jazzcore Noise - Italy 🇮🇹 - House of Mithology - Key Songs: Golgotha, Kether, La Donna Vestita di Sole, Fuoco Saturnio - 8.2

Progressive Rock - Sweden 🇸🇪 - Ãventyr Records - Key Songs: Above the Continuum, At the Summit - 8.1

Psychedelic / Progressive Blackened Doom Metal - Germany 🇩🇪 - Ván Records - Key Songs: Day of the Poacher, Alpha Fluids, Babel, You Scarlet Queen! - 8.0

Melodic Death/Doom Metal - Finland 🇫🇮 - Noble Demon Records - Key Songs: Rat in the Wall, Diamonds in the Rough, Goodbyes and Good Intentions, Tyhjä - 8.0

Post-Black Metal - Austria 🇦🇹 - AOP Records - Key Songs: Wahrheilt Teil I, Wahrheilt Teil II, Zeitenwende Teil II - 8.0

Heavy/Power/Doom Meal - Canada 🇨🇦 - TSO Productions - Key Songs: Blighted Deity, Walls of Endless Darkness, The Screaming Tower - 7.9

Melodic Death / Doom Metal - Finland 🇫🇮 - Self-Released - Key Songs: Shimmering, Heartbliss, Reignite - 7.9

Stoner/Sludge Metal - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Spinefarm Music - Harken the Waves, Breathe - 7.9

Progressive Metal - Netherlands 🇳🇱 - Kscope - Key Songs: Nautical Dusk, Vanishing Twin, Closer to the Unknown - 7.8

Progressive Black Metal - Lithuania 🇱🇹 - Self-Released - Key Song's: - 7.8

Blackened Post-Metal - Denmark 🇩🇰 - Nuclear Blast Records - Key Songs: Crush, A Former Blueprint - 7.6