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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Blackened crust-death metal band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2019. They fuse black metal, crust punk, and death metal into a chaotic assault from the Basque Country.
Russian black metal project formed in 2025. Crucium channels raw black metal aggression.
Black metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, Cruda Sorte are established figures in the Berlin black metal underground.
Black metal band from Munster, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver raw, uncompromising black metal from the Westphalian heartland.
Experimental symphonic black metal band from Derby, England, active since 2013. They blend black metal with symphonic and experimental elements from the East Midlands.
Black metal project from Calabria, southern Italy, formed in 2019. Cruel Life Inside channels bleak, raw black metal from one of Italy's most remote regions.
Raw black metal project from Hungary, formed in 2015. Cruel Suffering channels lo-fi hostility through stripped-down, primitive black metal.
Folk-infused melodic blackened death metal act from Rovenky in the Luhansk region, active since 2015. Cruel Truth channels Ukrainian folk elements through extreme metal from the war-affected Donbas region.
Blackened thrash act from Rome, formed in 2017. Cruelty Force merges black metal ferocity with thrash speed and aggression.
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European Metal Index is an index of European heavy metal bands — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, and all heavy music. Browse bands by genre, find metal concerts near you, and discover the European metal scene.