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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Death metal band from France, formed in 2021. They channel cursed darkness through death metal.
Death metal and deathcore band from Hamburg, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh, punishing extremity to the Hanseatic metal scene.
Timisoara act that evolved from death/black metal origins into a more experimental blend of black metal, ambient, and downtempo, reflecting a dramatic creative transformation since 2007. Their stylistic journey from extreme metal to atmospheric introspection traces an unusually broad artistic arc.
Blackened melodic death metal act from Skierniewice in central Poland, formed in 2025. Cursed Darkness merges melodic hooks with extreme metal ferocity.
Death metal, metalcore, and thrash band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver a genre-crossing attack blending death metal aggression with metalcore dynamics and thrash speed.
Melodic death-thrash metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2016. They merge melodic death metal with thrash from the Northern Irish capital.
Death metal and deathcore band from Kuopio, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver crushing extremity from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Industrial black-death metal band from Clermont-Ferrand, France, formed in 2015. They fuse extreme metal darkness with industrial mechanization from the Auvergne capital.
Black-death metal band from England, formed in 2021. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression.
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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.