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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-thrash metal act from Varna, Bulgaria, formed in 2021. They deliver a raw, high-energy assault that channels the aggression of thrash with the brutality of death metal.
Avant-garde black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They push extreme metal into unconventional territory from the French capital.
Death metal band from Marklohe in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020. Named after a spectral hound of Celtic mythology, they deliver death metal from the Weser Valley.
Death metal and deathcore band from Toledo, Spain, active since 2012. They deliver crushing extremity from the ancient Castilian city.
Black-death-doom metal band from London, formed in 2020. They channel cult-like darkness through a crushing fusion of three extreme genres.
Death-thrash project from Portugal, formed in 2024. Cult of Alcaeus — named after the ancient Greek poet — channels extreme metal with classical allusions.
Death-thrash act from Almere in Flevoland, formed in 2024. Cult of Carnage brings aggressive extreme metal to the Netherlands' newest province.
Gothic death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2021. Cult of Decay merges dark atmospherics with crushing doom and death metal.
Death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2015. They channel apocalyptic themes through death metal from eastern Finland.
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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.