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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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Thrash metal band from Montana, Bulgaria, active since 2013. They deliver fierce thrash metal from northwestern Bulgaria, a region better known for agriculture than extreme music.
Gothic progressive metal band from 's-Hertogenbosch, active since 1999. Cirrha Niva has spent over a quarter century crafting atmospheric, emotionally rich progressive metal from North Brabant.
Thrash metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, formed in 2014. They deliver aggressive thrash from the mountain foothills.
Doom and sludge metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They craft crushing, slow-burning heaviness layered with dense, oppressive atmospheres.
Raw black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, active since 2009. They strip black metal down to its most primal elements, delivering lo-fi ferocity in the tradition of the rawest underground.
Death-thrash act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2014. Cist delivers aggressive extreme metal from the historic border city.
Atmospheric black metal band from Devon, England, formed in 2021. They craft vast, nature-inspired black metal from the English West Country.
Black metal project from Warsaw, active since 2017. Cisza — Polish for 'silence' — channels paradoxically fierce black metal from the Polish capital.
Heavy metal band from Lacapelle-Marival in the Lot, France, formed in 2016. They deliver classic heavy metal from the rural heart of the Occitan countryside.
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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.