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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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Manchester-based thrash metal act active since 2024, 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 British filter.
Power metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2003. Their sound combines high-register vocals with twin-guitar harmonies and double-bass drumming in the grand tradition of melodic heavy metal.
Groove metal outfit from Austevoll, formed in 2018. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
German heavy metal and hard rock band from Kirchberg, formed in 2014. They bridge classic heavy metal and hard rock with a raw, energetic approach.
German heavy metal band from Schweinfurt, formed in 2024. They play classic heavy metal from the Franconian industrial heartland.
Finnish heavy metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2021. They play hellish heavy metal from the Finnish capital.
Doom metal outfit from Verona, formed in 2026. Their compositions stretch conventional structures to their limits, filling every measure with oppressive weight and deliberate, devastating momentum.
Abruzzo-based doom metal act active since 2025, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
German heavy metal band formed in 2016. They play classic, timeless heavy metal with conviction and power.
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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.