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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Since 2017, this Greek thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Athens. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Spanish death metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2013. They construct corpse-building death metal from the Catalan capital.
German melodic death/groove metal and metalcore band from Böblingen, formed in 2024. They merge three aggressive metal styles with melodic sensibility.
German black metal band from Berlin, formed in 2024. Named after the Italian word for darkness, they channel Mediterranean-tinged black metal from the capital.
Catania-based doom metal act active since 2013, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Stoner doom act from the Netherlands, formed in 2014. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Spanish groove/thrash metal band from Ciudad Real, formed in 2014. They blend groove metal rhythms with thrash metal aggression from the La Mancha plains.
Danish raw black metal project formed in 2018. They deliver stripped-down, primitive black metal in its rawest form.
Spanish metalcore and groove metal band from Tres Cantos near Madrid, formed in 2023. They deliver heavy metalcore grooves from the northern outskirts of the 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.