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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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Progressive metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2022. They craft intricate compositions from northern Finland.
Progressive sludge metal band from Salgótarján in northern Hungary, active since 2009. Corrodal merges weighty sludge textures with progressive ambition over their long career.
Progressive power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. They blend soaring melodies with progressive complexity from the Greek capital.
Progressive metal act from Moscow, formed in 2017. Cortex Impulse explores intricate compositional structures from the Russian capital.
Progressive metal act from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2016. They craft intricate compositions that blend technical precision with dynamic songwriting across shifting time signatures and moods.
Progressive thrash act from Zhytomyr in central Ukraine, formed in 2022. Cosmic Jaguar delivers technically ambitious thrash from the Polissia region.
Genre-spanning extreme metal project from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2021. Cosmic Vision weave atmospheric black metal, death metal, melodic death metal, and progressive elements into an ambitious, multifaceted sound.
Progressive death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, emerging in 2025. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Progressive thrash metal band from Salzburg, Austria, active since 2014. They expand the thrash template with progressive structures and technical musicianship, adding cerebral depth to high-speed aggression.
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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.