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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
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French death metal band from Colmar in Alsace, formed in 2014. They deliver blood-themed death metal from the picturesque Rhine Valley wine route.
Folk metal outfit from Rome, formed in 2015. Their sound integrates traditional melodic elements with metal's aggression, creating a festive yet powerful fusion.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Umeå, active since 2020. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Hommelvik-based black/viking metal act active since 2021, carving out their niche within the Norwegian heavy music underground. Their compositions reflect a commitment to their chosen sonic palette, delivered with conviction and underground credibility.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Oslo, active since 2021. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Danish death metal band from Tilst near Aarhus, active since 2009. They bring bloodlust-fueled death metal to the Jutland scene.
Danish band from Gråsten, formed in 2017, whose sound evolved from groove/death metal toward black metal. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly dark and atmospheric vision.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Poland, active since 2015. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
French death/black metal band from Périgueux in Dordogne, formed in 2024. They forge blood-eagle death/black metal from the Périgord countryside.
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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.