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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-thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the cultural capital of Saxony.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Moscow, active since 2014. CrimSun blends melodic hooks with modern extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Death metal act from Pordenone in Friuli, formed in 2020. Criogenesi — Italian for 'cryogenesis' — brings icy death metal to northeastern Italy.
Death-thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity from Lower Saxony's capital.
Death metal band from eastern Finland, active since 2013. They deliver crushing death metal from the remote Finnish countryside.
Death-thrash band from Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, formed in 2023. Crippling Madness brings extreme metal to the Podlasie border region.
Death-thrash band from Vicenza, active since 2012. Crisalide — Italian for 'chrysalis' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Death-grind act from Bari in Puglia, formed in 2017. Crisis Benoit blasts through grinding death metal from southern Italy's Adriatic coast.
Crust punk, death metal, and grindcore band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2011. They fuse the raw fury of crust with grinding death metal extremity.
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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.