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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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Progressive melodic death metal project from Catanzaro, Calabria, formed in 2024. Cardaemort brings technical ambition to southern Italy's extreme metal scene.
Progressive melodic death metal act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2012. Cardinal Points blends technical ambition with melodic death metal from the historic border city.
Death-doom act from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2020. Carestia — Italian for 'famine' — merges crushing death metal with funereal doom.
Black-death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2016. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the crushing brutality of death metal.
Death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They channel death metal aggression from the French capital.
Death-heavy metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, active since 2012. They blend death metal aggression with classic heavy metal hooks from the Finnish Savo region.
Death metal and grindcore act from Graz, Austria, formed in 2018. They deliver a punishing blend of guttural death metal with the relentless speed and brevity characteristic of grindcore.
Melodic death metal act from Stockholm, active since 2011. Carmilla — named after the classic vampire novella — delivers dark, hook-driven death metal from the Swedish capital.
Death metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing death metal from the Champagne 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.