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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Black metal band from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel cold, desolate black metal from the windswept Baltic coast.
Black metal project from Lublin in eastern Poland, active since 2012. Cold Empty Universe channels desolate, atmospheric black metal from the city near the Belarusian border.
Black metal band from Manchester, England, active since 2013. They deliver cold, atmospheric black metal from northern England.
Blackened death metal act from Verona, formed in 2014. Cold Fire merges icy black metal atmospheres with death metal ferocity.
Black metal project from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2023. Cold Gate crafts frigid black metal from Russia's northern capital.
Depressive black metal project from Cornwall, England, formed in 2023. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the English West Country.
Black metal project from Milan, formed in 2015. Cold Raven crafts frigid, atmospheric black metal from Italy's largest city.
Gothenburg death/black metal act formed in 2011, merging the city's legendary death metal heritage with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach draws from Sweden's deepest wells of extreme metal.
UK black metal project active since 2013. They channel cold void themes through atmospheric black metal.
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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.