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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Niš-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2016. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Moscow-based funeral doom project active since 2016, stretching compositions to their absolute breaking point through glacial tempos and overwhelming sonic density. Their music moves with the slow inevitability of geological time.
French stoner/sludge metal band from Castelfranc in Lot, formed in 2010. They deliver heavy stoner-sludge from the remote rural southwest of France.
German gothic/doom metal band formed in 2017. They merge gothic metal's dark atmosphere and melancholy with doom metal's crushing heaviness.
Czech black/death metal band from Třinec, active since 2002, with a substantial discography including releases like Dead World Order and Genociety. Their long-running output spans over two decades of aggressive, uncompromising extreme metal.
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German heavy metal band from Bochum, formed in 2022. They play direct, riff-focused heavy metal from the industrial Ruhr Valley.
German atmospheric black metal band from Saxony, formed in 2013. They weave ethereal atmospheres and natural imagery into a raw black metal framework.
Spanish death metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2020. They deliver bizarre, punishing death metal from the Catalan 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.