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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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Heavy metal act from Lisbon, formed in 2024. Castle Mountain brings traditional metal energy to the Portuguese capital.
Heavy-thrash metal band from Manosque in Provence, France, formed in 2023. They blend classic heavy metal with thrash aggression from the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Doom and heavy metal band from Ostrołęka in northeastern Poland, active since 2014. Catacombat crafts slow, massive riffs with an old-school heavy metal foundation.
Black-doom-heavy metal band from Ahtari, Finland, active since 2008. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and classic heavy metal from the rural Finnish heartland.
Heavy and power metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2021. They deliver melodic, energetic metal from the Estonian capital.
Heavy and stoner metal band from the Antrim/Armagh area of Northern Ireland, formed in 2015. They blend classic heavy metal with stoner grooves.
Black, heavy, and speed metal band from Turnov, Czech Republic, active since 2013. Their sound fuses first-wave black metal darkness with the velocity of speed metal and the power of traditional heavy metal.
Heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Finnish capital.
Heavy metal band from Tunes in the Algarve, formed in 2021. Cavilha delivers traditional metal from the sunny southernmost region of Portugal.
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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.