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Featured Album
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-thrash metal band from Ubeda in Jaen province, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh aggression to the Andalusian extreme metal scene.
Death metal and grindcore act from Milan, formed in 2020. Camposanto — Italian for 'cemetery' — blasts through grind-infused death metal from Lombardy.
Death metal act from Tilburg, North Brabant, formed in 2021. Can Abyss brings crushing death metal to a city already renowned for its extreme metal community.
Death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver punishing death metal brutality from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region.
Crust-death act from Modena, Italy, active since 2009. Cancer Spreading fuses d-beat crust punk with death metal heaviness, bridging the punk and metal undergrounds of Emilia-Romagna.
Death metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh brutality to the Czech capital's well-established death metal tradition.
Death metal act from Poznań, active since 2016. Cancerfaust delivers punishing death metal from the capital of Greater Poland.
Death metal band from London, England, active since 2013. They deliver crushing, faith-destroying death metal from the English capital.
Death metal and grindcore band from Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2009. They deliver filthy, grinding extremity from the Scottish 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.