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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Death metal band from Munster, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver crushing death metal from the Westphalian heartland.
Death metal and deathcore act from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2021. Crypts of Despair delivers crushing extremity from Lithuania's second-largest city.
Gothic melodic death metal band from the Karlsruhe/Stuttgart area, Germany, active since 2004. They merge dark gothic atmospheres with melodic death metal harmonies across two decades of activity.
Progressive death metal band from A Coruna, Spain, formed in 2020. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the Galician coast.
Death metal act from Genoa, formed in 2017. Crystal Sun channels death metal through an unexpectedly luminous name from the Ligurian port city.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, formed in 2021. Crystal Sword delivers melody-driven extreme metal from the ancient city near the Belarusian border.
Death metal act from Civitanova Marche in Macerata province, formed in 2023. Crystal Tear brings new death metal energy to the Adriatic coast of central Italy.
Melodic death-thrash metal band from the Melun/Fontainebleau area near Paris, France. They merge melodic death metal with thrash speed from the Ile-de-France.
Melodic death metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2013. They craft crystalline melodic death metal from Finland's third-largest city.
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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.