Founded by multi-instrumentalist Higor Hoenig, Neverwinter pairs his layered orchestral production with the expressive soprano vocals of Fernanda Zys, whose lyrics draw from 19th century literature and explore themes of fear and pain. Their 2019 debut Air Castle blends symphonic and power metal grandeur with gothic undertones drawn from bands like The Cure and HIM, resulting in a sound that sits at an unusual crossroads between darkness and melodic accessibility. The band produces everything independently out of their home studio in Paraná.

No One Spoke wove together distorted guitars, live violin, and the lyrical voice of Serbian-Brazilian vocalist Jelena Dobric into a style that deliberately avoided the operatic clichés common to female-fronted symphonic metal, drawing instead on classical and Latin influences. Their sole full-length "Nine Mirrors" (2021) spans nine tracks across forty-seven minutes and includes a guest appearance by bassist Rudy Sarzo on a cover of Ronnie James Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark."

NouseyesuoN fuses heavy metal with orchestral classical arrangements, structuring their 2020 album Death Is Nothing To Us as a suite of nine movements — each track numbered as an Opus — covering ground from Epicurean philosophy to Mayan mythology and medieval death imagery. The band's lyrical scope is unusually literary, drawing on poetry, nihilism, and esoteric history to give the music an almost academic density.

Nova Darkness is a Chilean melodic death metal band that released their debut album Of Doom and Grief in November 2019, a ten-track record incorporating neo-classical and symphonic elements alongside death metal riffing. The band followed it with Nigredo Tenebrae in January 2024, continuing to develop a sound influenced by the melodic death metal tradition of the 1990s.