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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Progressive metal project from Italy, active since 2011. Closed Circle explores intricate arrangements and technical musicianship within a progressive framework.
Groove and progressive metal band from Switzerland, formed in 2014. They blend heavy, rhythmic grooves with progressive complexity and dynamic arrangements.
Progressive melodic death metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend progressive complexity with melodic death metal's harmonies and aggression.
Helsingborg progressive/power metal act active since 2013, crafting ambitious compositions that blend technical precision with melodic grandeur. Their sound bridges the accessibility of power metal with progressive rock's structural complexity.
Progressive death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from the Greek capital.
Progressive metal band from Helsinki, Finland, emerging in 2025. They craft intricate, technically accomplished progressive metal.
Progressive metal act from Rimini, active since 2011. CMKY delivers complex, technically-driven progressive metal from the Adriatic coast of Emilia-Romagna.
Progressive metal act from Rome, active since 2009. Coercive has spent over fifteen years crafting intricate progressive metal from the Italian capital.
Progressive heavy metal band from Aix-en-Provence, France, formed in 2020. They blend progressive complexity with heavy metal power from the Provençal heartland.
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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.