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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Finnish death metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2025. They deliver soul-rending death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Death metal band from Ghent, Belgium, active since 2021. They forge gritty, uncompromising death metal from Belgium's cultural capital.
Groove metal outfit from Rotterdam, formed in 2014. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
German death metal and metalcore band from Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich, formed in 2021. They combine death metal heaviness with metalcore structures from the Upper Bavarian suburbs.
German death metal band from Ludwigsfelde near Berlin, formed in 2018. They deliver splatter-themed death metal from the Brandenburg outskirts of the capital.
Thrash metal outfit from Limburg, formed in 2018. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German death metal band from Marienberg in the Erzgebirge, formed in 2017. They craft morbid death metal from the mountainous Saxon mining region.
Melodic death metal band from Zofingen, Switzerland, active since 2011. They channel the melodic death metal tradition through a distinctly Swiss lens.
German death metal band from Saarbrücken, formed in 2019. They channel predatory death metal from the Saarland capital.
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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.