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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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Heavy metal and thrash band from Kent, England active since 2017. They deliver powerful, riff-driven metal from southeastern England.
Progressive thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia active since 2015. Their Dutch-city name belies Russian origins, delivering thrash metal with progressive complexity from the Moscow metal underground.
Thrash metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2012. They bring fierce Norse-themed thrash from the Greek capital.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Kaufbeuren in Bavaria, Germany, forging powerful, riff-driven metal since 2012. Their German name, meaning "iron hewer," captures the forceful, hammering quality of their traditional metal sound.
Death/thrash metal band from France, active since 2014. They deliver fierce, riff-driven extreme metal from the French underground.
Thrash/power metal and metalcore band from Russia formed in 2022, blending thrash and power metal's energy with metalcore's breakdown-heavy aggression into an eclectic hybrid.
When Eldprov emerged in 2020 from Gällivare, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal, death metal, and thrash metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Groove/thrash metal act from Copenhagen, Denmark, delivering electrifying, high-energy aggression since 2010. Their name captures the charged, hellish intensity of their fusion of groove and thrash metal.
Thrash metal act from Sofia, Bulgaria, delivering high-voltage aggression since 2016. Their name captures the electrifying intensity of their approach to modern thrash metal from Bulgaria's capital.
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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.