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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 project from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2023. Cold Gate crafts frigid black metal from Russia's northern capital.
Genre-spanning band from London, active since 2009. Cold in Berlin blend death metal, doom, gothic, and stoner influences into a dark, theatrical sound.
Death-doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2013. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the French capital.
Depressive black metal project from Cornwall, England, formed in 2023. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the English West Country.
Black metal project from Milan, formed in 2015. Cold Raven crafts frigid, atmospheric black metal from Italy's largest city.
Death metal act from Nagyatád, Hungary, formed in 2013. Cold Reality delivers bleak, uncompromising extreme metal from the Somogy county underground.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2012. Cold Resistance has spent over a decade delivering hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Thrash metal band from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2019. Cold Response delivers aggressive thrash from the Østfold region.
Heavy metal band from the Iserlohn/Lunen area of Westphalia, Germany, active since 2011. They forge classic heavy metal with strong riffs from the Sauerland foothills.
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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.