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Featured Album
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Heerlen-based thrash metal/metalcore act active since 2005, bridging old-school thrash's riff-driven attack with metalcore's modern dynamics and breakdown-heavy structures. Their sound draws from both traditions with aggressive conviction.
German death metal and hardcore band from Karlsruhe, formed in 2018. They fuse death metal's brutality with hardcore's confrontational energy.
German death metal band from Stralsund on the Baltic coast, formed in 2022. They deliver chaotic death metal from the northeastern German shore.
Spanish symphonic death metal band from Toledo, formed in 2022. They layer Egyptian-themed symphonic grandeur over death metal from the ancient Castilian city.
Spanish melodic progressive metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They weave progressive complexity into melodic metal from the Catalan capital.
Finnish melodic death metal band from Tornio, formed in 2024. They craft melodic death metal from the Swedish-Finnish border in the far north.
Kazan-based symphonic death metal act active since 2017, augmenting their extreme metal foundation with orchestral arrangements and cinematic scope. Their music pairs death metal's visceral aggression with lush keyboard orchestration and epic compositional ambition.
Heavy metal outfit from Poland, formed in 2019. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
York-based black metal act active since 2023, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a British lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black 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.