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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2019)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Circus of Doom (Live in Helsinki 2023) (2025)
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Punishing brutal death metal from Vilnius, formed in 2020. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
German deathcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing deathcore with punishing breakdowns.
Finnish death/groove metal band from Tampere, formed in 2016. They combine death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic hooks.
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Death metal and grindcore band from Gierle, Belgium, active since 2015. They combine death metal's guttural brutality with grindcore's frantic blast-beat intensity.
Finnish death metal and grindcore band from Nurmes in eastern Finland, formed in 2014. They deliver butchered death-grind from the remote Karelian countryside.
Varteig/Sarpsborg-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2020. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
German melodic death metal band from Wuppertal, active since 2009. They bring over a decade of melodic death metal to the Bergisches Land scene.
Komotini-based thrash metal act active since 2020, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Greek filter.
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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.