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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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Melodic death-power metal act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2011. Cascabel delivers versatile, melody-driven metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Melodic death-thrash band from Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary, near the Austrian border, active since 2006. Casketgarden fuses sweeping melodic hooks with death metal aggression and thrash precision.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2016. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from northern Finland.
Melodic death-thrash band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2013. They blend the melodic sensibilities of Gothenburg-style death metal with thrash metal's relentless speed.
Black and melodic death metal band from Dobrovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. Their sound merges the raw intensity of black metal with the harmonic structures and melodic sensibility of death metal.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Technical melodic death metal band from Loppem, Belgium, formed in 2019. They combine the precision and complexity of technical death metal with the melodic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition, creating an intricate yet accessible sound.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2009. Catamenia weave black metal, death metal, gothic metal, and melodic elements into an expansive, multi-faceted sound from northern Finland.
Melodic death metal band from St. Andrews, Scotland, active since 2013. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the historic university town.
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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.