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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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Heavy metal solo project from Turin, active since 2013. Chris Holder delivers traditional metal from the Piedmontese capital.
Melodic death metal solo artist from Hesse, Germany, active since 2016. He crafts melodic yet aggressive death metal with a focus on dynamic songwriting.
Experimental progressive metal solo artist from Athens, Greece, active since 2007. He crafts intricate, boundary-pushing progressive metal.
Power metal band from Turku, Finland, emerging in 2025. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from Finland's oldest city.
Death-doom metal band from Ptolemaida in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2023. They merge death metal aggression with crushing doom from the Greek mining region.
Polish melodic black metal pioneers from Morąg and later Olsztyn, with roots stretching back to 1990. Christ Agony is one of Poland's oldest and most respected black metal acts, with over three decades of blasphemous output.
Brutal death metal band from Nuneaton, England. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the West Midlands.
Death-doom act from Elbląg on Poland's Baltic coast, active since 2015. Christ's Flesh merges crushing death metal with plodding doom pacing.
German black metal project emerging in 2026. They channel blasphemous fury through raw, uncompromising 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.