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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 metal act from Løten in Hedmark, active since 2014. Criterion delivers crushing death metal from the rural Norwegian interior.
Death metal band from Boulogne-sur-Mer on the Pas-de-Calais coast, France, formed in 2019. They deliver death metal from the Channel coast.
Technical death-thrash act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Critical Extravasation — a medical term for bleeding — delivers precise, technically demanding extreme metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from Sumperk, Czech Republic, active since 2004. With over two decades of grinding intensity, they deliver chaotic extremity from the northern Moravian mountains.
Death metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver punishing death metal from the capital of Lower Saxony.
Death metal band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2010. They channel death metal aggression from the Spanish capital.
Bucharest act that evolved from nu-metal origins into a heavier melodic death metal and deathcore direction, reflecting a creative trajectory that demanded increasing extremity. Their stylistic shift demonstrates the pull of aggressive music beyond mainstream-accessible frameworks.
Melodic black-death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, active since 2008. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from Denmark's second-largest city.
Death metal band from Rennes in Brittany, France, formed in 2020. They deliver death metal from the Breton 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.