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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Tribute to Erik Lindmark (Deeds of Flesh) (2020)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Heavy metal act from Bordeaux, active since 2006. Two decades of devotion to the gods of metal from France's wine capital have forged a sound steeped in classic heavy metal tradition.
Operating from Athens, this black metal project has been shaping devastating sound since 2025. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Black metal project from Sankt Johann im Pongau, Austria, emerging in 2025 from the Austrian alpine underground. Their sound channels raw, unfiltered black metal aggression with a bleak, uncompromising vision.
Death/black metal band from the Czech Republic, active since 2012. Their darkened blend of death and black metal channels the brutality and atmosphere of both genres into a single punishing force.
Atmospheric black metal project from Calenberg Land, Germany, formed in 2021. Their expansive sound captures the misty, rolling landscapes of the Lower Saxon countryside through immersive atmospheric black metal.
Hailing from Timișoara in Romania, this black/folk metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2016. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Hokedun is a black metal project from Warwick, United Kingdom, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the United Kingdom black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Blackened Death Metal outfit rooted in Santa Ninfa (Trapani), channeling thunderous underground intensity since 2022. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Death metal act from Newcastle upon Tyne, active since 2022. Their compositions channel brutal death metal from the Tyne, adding to northeast England's growing extreme metal reputation.
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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.