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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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Icestorm is a band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2012, evolving from traditional heavy metal into a melodic death metal/metalcore hybrid. The band's stylistic evolution reflects Barcelona's diverse heavy music landscape.
Metalcore band from Dundee, Scotland formed in 2023. Their anime-referencing name channels metalcore from the Scottish east coast.
Iconvict is a metalcore/hardcore band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2023, combining the breakdowns and aggression of metalcore with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. The band represents the newest generation of Hanover's heavy music underground.
Metalcore band from Kotka in southeastern Finland, active since 2010. Their exorcism-referencing name channels metalcore aggression from the Gulf of Finland.
Idols Are Dead is a melodic thrash metal/metalcore band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2008 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Ignition Code is a melodic technical death metal/metalcore band from Roseto degli Abruzzi (Teramo), Italy, active since 2012 and pushing death metal through precision-engineered technical complexity. The project channels intricate musicianship and compositional ambition.
Igut is a metalcore band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2009 and delivering aggressive, dynamic metal with crushing breakdowns and intense energy. The project channels the power of modern extreme metal.
Illidiance is a symphonic black metal act from Taganrog, Russia, active since 2019 and weaving orchestral grandeur into the ferocity of black metal. The project delivers cinematic, bombastic extremity with sweeping arrangements.
Welsh metal band from Rhyl on the North Wales coast, active since 2011, evolving from early crossover/punk origins into melodic death metal and metalcore. Their stylistic shift reflects a maturation toward more technically demanding metal.
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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.