Shai Hulud (named after the sandworms in Dune) have been cranking out their awesome metal/hardcore hybrid for nearly 20 years, and they do their name proud.
Mediterranean metallers Nightfall continue to push their brand of accessible black metal. One would be hard pressed to consider them strict black metal nowadays.
Fresh outta high school, Chicago’s Starkill use fantasy artwork on the cover of their debut CD and title their songs things like “Sword, Spear, Blood, Fire.”
Seeing as how the continent is a vast, harsh, desolate, ice cold expanse of misery, it’s amazing that it’s taken this long for it to get its due from the metal world.