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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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125 bands found
Termoli (Campobasso)-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2011, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Spanish progressive death metal and metalcore band from Castalla in Alicante province, formed in 2015. They push death metal into progressive territory with metalcore elements.
British groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2025, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Progressive metal and metalcore act from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2012. They blend progressive complexity with metalcore's dynamic shifts and heavy breakdowns.
England-based groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2021, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Parisian death/groove metal outfit formed in 2019, incorporating metalcore breakdowns into their dense, rhythmic attack. They represent the younger generation of the French extreme metal scene.
German metalcore and hardcore band from the Saxony-Thuringia border region, formed in 2011. They play aggressive, hard-hitting metalcore.
England-based deathcore act active since 2026, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Spanish thrash metal and metalcore band from Tarragona, formed in 2022. They break the silence with aggressive thrash-infused metalcore from Catalonia.
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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.