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Alfa Obscura is a one-man Norwegian black metal/avant-garde project based in Oslo, run since around 2010 by Bjeima (Bjørge Eide Martinsen), who writes, performs, and produces all instruments and vocals. Musically it is rooted in cold, dissonant '90s Norwegian black metal tradition pushed into more avant-garde territory across the albums 'Plutonian Shores' (2011) and 'Sisyfos Speil' (2023), the latter drawing critical comparisons to Ved Buens Ende, Virus, and Manes. Bjeima is also a session/touring bassist for the Norwegian avant-garde black metal band Virus, appearing on their album 'The Agent That Shapes The Desert' (2011) and 'Oblivion Clock' EP (2012).

Towards Rusted Soil is a black metal side project of Tamás Kátai, better known as the founder/mainman of Thy Catafalque (and also of Gort and Gire), on which he performed all vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and programming himself. The project released two demos, Forsaken in Fog (2000) and A Landscape Slumbering (2003), before its material was reissued on a 2014 four-way split alongside fellow Makó-scene acts Gort, Namtar and Gire.

Ebonillumini is a female-fronted avant-garde/gothic black metal project from London, founded in 2008 by Meads of Asphodel guitarist James Tait ('The Monk Marshall') alongside vocalist Christina Poupoutsi ('The Maiden'). Across The Ebon Channel (2008), Pacificum (2013) and Arktos (2015) the band frames each record as a concept-driven geographic voyage, pairing Poupoutsi's operatic, 'musky' clean vocals against Tait's harsh growls, with reviewers noting jazz-inflected song structures, neo-classical/symphonic orchestration and black-metal-rooted riffing shading into psychedelia and Viking-metal tropes. Production has drawn criticism for burying the heavier material under brickwalled mastering and overlong running times.

Nebelkrähe were a black metal band from Munich, active 2007 to their split-up in January 2025. Built on a driving, melodic black-metal core, later records (Ephemer, 2023; a full 2024 re-recording of the 2009 debut Entfremdet) folded in cello, accordion, harmonica and hackbrett (hammered dulcimer) as recurring folk-instrumentation color, with Empyrium's Markus Stock guesting on the Ephemer track 'Kranichträume.' Reviewers describe the late-period sound as 'modern' and varied black metal that stays grounded in the genre while using its acoustic guests sparingly rather than as a wholesale folk-metal turn.

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Umbral Presence is a Russian black metal side-project founded in 1998 by Noctulius (Rustam), the keyboardist/vocalist of avant-garde metal band Rakoth, conceived as a more brutal, occult-oriented outlet. Its sole full-length, Caelethi I, was recorded in 2000, re-recorded in 2005, and released in 2006 through Sound Age Productions (Moscow), pairing keyboard-driven black/death metal with industrial and ambient textures. Session guitarist Lidagon (Alex Plotnikoff, also of Glazemaker) contributed to the album.

Crown of Ascension is the solo experimental black metal project of UK multi-instrumentalist A. White (Oxfordshire), who is also the sole member of extreme-metal project Vessel of Iniquity and the industrial/drone/doom project Uncertainty Principle. The project blends blastbeat-driven black metal with industrial, drone and electronic textures, with cello recurring as a primary instrument alongside drum machines pushed to extreme tempos.

Sturmgeist is the solo vehicle of Norwegian musician Cornelius Jakhelln (Solefald, G.U.T.), founded in 2002 as an experimental black/thrash outfit that took an increasingly electronic/industrial turn from its 2005 debut Meister Mephisto onward. Sung across English, Norwegian and German, the project draws on Germanic mythology, war and poetry (Goethe), with Jakhelln handling vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, programming and sampling himself while rotating in session musicians for drums and second guitar.

Isa was a solo Dutch black metal project from Arnhem, active only in 2008, releasing a single limited CD-R, Eindeloos, before disbanding. The record pairs raw, repetitive tremolo riffing with minimal, ambient-tinged guitar textures across three long, depressive tracks dealing with loneliness and isolation. It is a minor, self-contained entry in the Dutch DSBM/atmospheric underground with no documented links to other scene names.

Strangeways is an experimental black metal band from Jerusalem, formed in 2006 by Avi Caspi and Yossi Darmon (later joined by drummer Nir Nakav). Their sole full-length, Rotting Under the La La Bombs (2013, Orgasmatrön Records), delivers Mayhem-indebted, Attila Csihar-toned Norwegian-style black metal roughened by deliberate CD-skip glitch edits and two contrasting instrumental interludes (keyboard/piano, and pure dark ambient). A minor, single-album entry at the fringe of Israel's small extreme metal scene.

Titaan is the one-man occult black metal project of Italian musician Lalartu, based in Trieste, built around a conceptual exploration of ancient Mesopotamian mythology across Kadingir (2016) and ITIMA (2020). The project fuses aggressive second-wave black metal with dark ambient textures and ritualistic vocal chanting, aiming for a 'cinematic' rather than song-based listening experience. Releases are issued via the Italian label ATMF.

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