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Dødheimsgard (DHG) are a Norwegian band formed in Oslo in 1994 that mutated from the raw black metal of Kronet Til Konge (1995) into the fractured avant-garde industrial black metal of 666 International (1999). Led throughout by Vicotnik, they became a touchstone of the experimental wing of Norwegian black metal. Kronet Til Konge's lineup featured Darkthrone's Fenriz on bass, and its closer 'When Heavens End' carries an additional-songwriting credit for Ulver founder Sigmund 'Grellmund' Løkken.

Abstruse is the one-man experimental black/thrash/industrial metal project of Athens, Greece-based musician Substant, active since 2002. Substant composes via an idiosyncratic 'order-based system' that treats intervals as numeric patterns rather than conventional scales, and has built custom software ('motion2sound') to translate movement into sound and multi-sensory staging elements. The project's 2019 album Submerge: Ritual is structured as a conceptual 'Pan Ritual' narrative; a 2010 demo, Ivory Tower, was ranked among the year's top albums by the Avantgarde Metal webzine.

The Sprawlcosm was a Vienna, Austria act active 1999-2005 (performing as Sprawl until 2001) that fused black metal's blast beats and shrieked vocals with industrial/EBM electronics, oriental-tinged scales, and jazz-adjacent touches. Their sole full-length, Cybionic Black Art (Silverhead Records, Dec 2000), juxtaposed programmed industrial textures and harsh black metal aggression with acoustic guitar and symphonic keyboard passages.

Folgers is the 'Cult of Folgers' — a Tennessee bedroom project built around raw black metal and harsh noise, entirely fixated on the Folgers coffee brand as a running joke/lore concept (album titles include 'Damn Right, It's Folgers!' and 'Folgers Hates Maxwells'). Main contributor Hystalgia handles vocals/screams/growls, guitar, bass, synths, noise and production, blending household-object noise sources (shower, microwave, coffee maker) into the black-metal base, with Sikaydah contributing cover art and noise. The project is absurdly prolific — dozens of releases since its founding in December 2021 via the DIY label Lucid Haze Productions — culminating in the 2024 full-length 'Summoning of the Folgers.'

Tabernacle ov Thee Flesh is a Brazilian avant-garde/experimental black metal project from Joinville, released via Ultra Gash Records, featuring Naboth E. Coli (vocals, keyboards), L. Borgia Rossetti (guitar, also of Esmectatons and Os Legais) and Leal Barroso (drums, also of Esmectatons and Zombie Cookbook). Their sole album Versículos de Autoflagelo (2021) comprises 25 short tracks forming one continuous suite steeped in free improvisation, jazz and noise traditions.

The Kovenant are a Norwegian band formed in 1992 (as Covenant) in Hamar that began in symphonic black metal and reinvented itself as industrial/cyber 'space metal' after its 1999 rename. The pivotal 1998 album Nexus Polaris, released on Nuclear Blast, drew in Mayhem drummer Jan Axel 'Hellhammer' Blomberg, who has remained the band's drummer. Fronted by Lex Icon (ex-Dimmu Borgir) and Psy Coma, their programming-drenched sound sits at the electronic edge of the Norwegian avant-black scene.

Norwegian avant-garde project (1998-2006) from Notodden founded by Ihsahn (Emperor), his wife Ihriel and her brother Lord PZ, on their own Mnemosyne Productions. It began as symphonic avant-garde extreme metal and drifted toward classical-tinged avant-garde rock full of twisted synths, electronics, operatic female vocals and Ihsahn's shrieks. Lost in Reverie (2004) is regarded as a landmark of the genre-transcending Norwegian avant-garde.

Iblis were a Kraków, Poland avant-garde black metal band active 2003-2013, known for their self-styled 'Nuklear Rock'n'Roll' and 2012 album Menthell. Bassist Traktor's jazz/funk/prog-inflected playing and guitarist Borsuk's swings between dense black/thrash riffing and spacious passages sat under frontman Zgred's theatrical, King Diamond-adjacent vocal shifts, sampled voices and persistent psychedelic effects.

Damned Spirits' Dance is a Budapest, Hungary act (active 2002–2013+) that began as melodic black-death metal and mutated into a genuinely odd hybrid of blackened riffing, quirky synths, clean vocals, and circus-tinged theatricality, released via the Dutch label Vic Records and then Italy's Code666. Critics discussing Hungarian avant-garde metal have grouped the band alongside Arcturus and Unexpect for its playful, off-kilter approach to extremity. Their sole full-length, Weird Constellations (2009), is the clearest document of the sound.

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The Wicked was a short-lived (1999-c.2005) Finnish melodic black/industrial/avant-garde metal act from Uusimaa, released on Spikefarm Records, built around Necrotron (guitars, keyboards - real name Henri 'Trollhorn' Sorvali, also of Moonsorrow and Finntroll) and vocalist Lucius M.K. Their two albums, ...For Theirs Is the Flesh (2002) and Sonic Scriptures of the End Times (2004), pile industrial beats, voice-over samples, and symphonic/new-age keyboard writing onto a black-metal chassis, drawing comparisons to a metal Danny Elfman scoring a Tim Burton film. It's a genuinely odd, theatrical corner of the late-90s/early-2000s Finnish extreme scene.