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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
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Thrash metal band from Syke, Germany, active since 2013. They channel relentless, riff-driven thrash from the suburbs south of Bremen.
Groove metal band from Pettenbach, Austria, formed in 2020. They forge heavy, rhythmic grooves with crushing riffs, drawing from the power of bands like Pantera and Lamb of God.
German metalcore band formed in 2018. They deliver heavy breakdowns and melodic passages rooted in the modern metalcore tradition.
Blackened brutal death metal act from Piuro in Sondrio province, formed in 2019. Cleaver delivers savage extremity from a tiny Alpine village in the Lombardy mountains.
Death metal band from Kastoria in western Macedonia, Greece, formed in 2021. They deliver death metal from the lakeside Byzantine city.
Doom and sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Named after a Game of Thrones character, they deliver crushing doom-sludge from the French capital.
Raw black metal band from Toulon, France, formed in 2023. They deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Var coast of Provence.
Groove-thrash metal band from Nice, France, active since 2007. They combine heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the French Riviera.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Hatfield in Hertfordshire, England, active since 2000. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy 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.