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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Death metal band from Kothen in Anhalt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh death metal brutality to the Saxony-Anhalt underground.
Death metal act from Drammen, southeast of Oslo, formed in 2022. Cyste delivers punishing death metal from the Buskerud region.
Brutal death metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2011. Cytotoxin have built a devoted following through relentless, technically proficient death metal laced with nuclear and chemical themes.
Death metal outfit from Athens, Greece, active since 2015. Cypsis delivers crushing riffs and guttural vocals steeped in the Greek extreme metal tradition.
Post-metal death-sludge act from Warsaw, active since 2014. Czerń — Polish for 'blackness' — merges atmospheric post-metal with crushing death and sludge elements.
Death-groove act from Żmigród in Lower Silesia, active since 2010. Czoug delivers heavy, rhythmically-driven extreme metal from the Polish countryside.
Death metal act from Moscow, formed in 2021. Cælibatus delivers dark death metal from the Russian 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.