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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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Heavy metal band from Bakel in North Brabant, active since 2013. Chronic Noise delivers straightforward traditional metal from the southern Netherlands.
Thrash metal band from Aue-Bad Schlema in the Erzgebirge, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh thrash aggression from the Saxon mountain region.
Black-thrash metal band from Frederikshavn in northern Jutland, Denmark, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal speed.
Symphonic melodic death-power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2018. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with symphonic orchestration and power metal hooks.
Melodic black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2012. They weave dark melodies through atmospheric black metal from the Saxon industrial city.
Heavy metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, Chronique deliver seasoned heavy metal from France's second city.
Melodic death-thrash band from Sosnowiec in Upper Silesia, active since 2012. Chronix delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Dąbrowa Basin.
Death metal act from Ruma in Vojvodina, formed in 2023. Chronogoria delivers crushing death metal from the Srem district of northern Serbia.
Melodic death metal act from Budapest, formed in 2022. Chronolit delivers hook-driven extreme metal with strong melodic sensibilities.
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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.