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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Melodic death metal outfit from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Twin-guitar harmonies and soaring lead work temper the brutality of blast beats and growled vocals, creating compositions that are both punishing and anthemic.
Sludge/doom/death metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2010. They fuse the crushing weight of doom with death metal's intensity and sludge metal's abrasive grime from the steel city's underground.
Heavy metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2020. Their material channels the spirit of iron-fisted riffing and anthemic songwriting that has defined heavy metal since its inception.
Spanish black metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2018. They deliver two-headed black metal from the industrial heart of the Basque Country.
French sludge metal band from Reims in Champagne, formed in 2019. They craft crushing sludge metal from the city of coronations.
Bologna-based heavy metal act active since 2014, delivering riff-driven compositions rooted in the genre's foundational traditions of power chords, soaring vocals, and galloping rhythms. Their sound carries the unmistakable stamp of classic heavy metal conviction.
Death metal outfit from Košice, formed in 2007. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Arruda dos Vinhos-based death metal/grindcore outfit active since 2013, blasting through short, ferocious compositions that marry death metal's low-end churn with grindcore's frenetic speed. Their music operates at maximum intensity with minimal patience for subtlety.
Spanish folk/black metal band from Ondarroa in the Basque Country, formed in 2022. They weave Basque folk elements into a black metal framework, singing in Euskara.
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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.