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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Sharing (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Scene - Live In Cologne (2024)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum (Deluxe Digital Edition) (2022)
05/26 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
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Black metal band from Guildford in Surrey, England, active since 2012. They channel cold darkness through black metal from the English Home Counties.
UK black metal project formed in 2017. They craft dark, despairing black metal.
Gothic metal band from Gladenbach, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy, emotionally resonant sound.
Black metal band from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel cold, desolate black metal from the windswept Baltic coast.
Doom metal band from Lubeck, Germany, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, Cold Embrace are among the most enduring doom acts in northern Germany.
Black metal project from Lublin in eastern Poland, active since 2012. Cold Empty Universe channels desolate, atmospheric black metal from the city near the Belarusian border.
Black metal band from Manchester, England, active since 2013. They deliver cold, atmospheric black metal from northern England.
Blackened death metal act from Verona, formed in 2014. Cold Fire merges icy black metal atmospheres with death metal ferocity.
Heavy metal band from Mosbach, Germany, emerging in 2025. They deliver classic heavy metal energy from the Neckar-Odenwald region of Baden-Wurttemberg.
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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.