Darzamat is a Polish gothic black metal band, founded in 1995. After a few initial releases, the founding member Flauros managed to gather musicians who have since been identified as the band's core:

Crionics was a Polish blackened death metal band from Kraków, formed in 1997 by Michał Skotniczny, Dariusz Styczeń, "Marcotic" and Maciej Zięba. In their early years they played fast and melodic metal