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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/16 @ Coca-Cola Coliseum, Toronto
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Black-doom act from Norrköping, formed in 2018. Crows over Brávellir — referencing the legendary Viking battle of Brávellir — channels Norse themes through atmospheric extreme metal.
Black-death metal band from Bradford, England, formed in 2024. They fuse extreme metal darkness from West Yorkshire.
Black metal band from Neuss, Germany, formed in 2014. They channel dark intensity through atmospheric black metal from the Lower Rhine.
Black metal project from Zaporizhia, formed in 2021. Crucifix Default delivers raw black metal from the Dnieper River city in southeastern Ukraine.
Black metal band from the Ile-de-France region, formed in 2022. They channel crucifixion-themed darkness through raw black metal.
Gothic black metal project from Chita in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia, formed in 2022. Crucifixus crafts dark, atmospheric metal from one of Russia's most remote cities.
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.
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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.