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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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Progressive thrash act from Nakhodka, a port city in Russia's Far East near Vladivostok, formed in 2017. Catapultah delivers technically-ambitious thrash from the Pacific coast.
Progressive thrash metal band from North Yorkshire, England. They merge progressive complexity with thrash metal aggression from the English countryside.
Power and progressive metal band from Langen, Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Category V craft epic, technically accomplished metal built on soaring melodies and complex arrangements.
Progressive metal solo artist from Reims, France, formed in 2023. He crafts intricate progressive metal from the Champagne capital.
Progressive death metal act from Östersund in the Swedish mountain region, active since 2010. Celeborn — named after the Tolkien elf lord — blends progressive complexity with death metal from Jämtland.
Progressive metal act from Brasov with roots stretching back to 1999, making them one of Transylvania's longest-running progressive metal presences. Their quarter-century of activity speaks to the depth of Romania's ambitious metal underground.
Progressive metal band from Saarbrucken, Germany, formed in 2023. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions from the Franco-German border region.
Progressive heavy metal band from Nordlingen, Germany, formed in 2016. They weave intricate progressive arrangements into a powerful heavy metal framework from the heart of Bavarian Swabia.
Progressive metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2018. They craft intricate compositions from the birthplace of heavy 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.