Behemoth

Behemoth turned Polish extreme metal into a global brand: blackened death metal with Roman-epic staging, fronted by Nergal, a man who has fought his country’s blasphemy laws almost as often as he has toured. Three decades in, they headline the festivals their genre was never supposed to reach.

For the lab they’re the proof that a scene far from the Anglo axis can set the standard for an entire genre — and export it back.