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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-doom metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, Crepuscule merge twilight atmospheres with death-doom weight from France's second city.
Progressive melodic death metal band from the Hanover/Gottingen area, Germany, formed in 2023. They merge progressive complexity with melodic death metal's harmonies and aggression.
Death metal and symphonic metal band from Wattwil in the Toggenburg valley of Switzerland, formed in 2016. They merge the brutality of death metal with orchestral symphonic arrangements, creating an ambitious, cinematic sound.
Blackened death metal band from Gjøvik in central Norway, active since 2004. Crest of Darkness has spent over two decades crafting sinister extreme metal from the shores of Lake Mjøsa.
Melodic death metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2019. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal shaped by the Mediterranean island's small but dedicated extreme metal scene.
Death metal band from Halmstad on the Swedish west coast, active since 2005. Cretoria has spent two decades crafting death metal from the Halland coast.
Death metal band from Yerres near Paris, France, active since 2013. They deliver death metal from the Parisian suburbs.
Death metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from France's second city.
Death-thrash act from Dublin, formed in 2023. Criminal Jammage brings raw, aggressive energy to the Irish capital's extreme metal community.
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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.