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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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Industrial death-metalcore act from Poland, formed in 2023. Chrome Black Future merges cold electronic textures with extreme metal aggression in a futuristic package.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2015. They combine the power of classic heavy metal with the aggressive edge of thrash from the Rhineland.
Heavy metal band from Oslo, active since 2006. Chrome Division is the hard rock and heavy metal side project of Dimmu Borgir's Shagrath, delivering biker-themed, riff-driven metal.
Progressive metal band from Aabenraa in southern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2015. They craft intricate, dynamic compositions from the Danish borderlands.
Industrial metal act from Amsterdam, formed in 2017. Chrome Sky merges cold electronic textures with metallic aggression from the Dutch capital.
Speed metal band from Joensuu, Finland, emerging in 2025. They channel high-velocity metal from eastern Finland.
Thrash metal band from the Istrian city of Pula, Croatia, formed in 2023. Chronic Disease brings raw, youthful energy to the Croatian thrash metal scene.
Heavy metal band from Rome, formed in 2016. Chronic Hangover brings rough-edged, no-frills heavy metal energy to the Italian capital's scene.
Death-grind act from Estremoz in the Alentejo, formed in 2018. Chronic Infection delivers blast-driven extremity from the marble-quarrying town of central Portugal.
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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.