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Impetus Odi (2021)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Brazen (2024)
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Doom and heavy metal band from Dublin, active since 2009. Council of Tanith delivers crushing, occult-tinged doom with a classic heavy metal foundation.
Doom and heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They craft absurdist doom with classic heavy metal hooks from the Finnish capital.
Thrash metal band from Regensburg, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver fast, hard-hitting thrash with irreverent energy from the medieval Bavarian city.
Symphonic black-doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. They weave symphonic grandeur through darkened doom-black metal.
Speed metal act from Varberg on the Swedish west coast, active since 2016. Countenance delivers high-velocity traditional metal from Halland.
Death metal act from Giżycko in the Masurian Lake District, formed in 2020. Counter.faith delivers crushing death metal from one of Poland's most scenic northeastern regions.
Death-doom-industrial act from Jönköping in Småland, formed in 2018. Counterblast merges multiple extreme subgenres from the Småland highlands.
Heavy metal band from Cwmbran in South Wales, formed in 2019. They deliver classic heavy metal from the Welsh valleys.
Groove-thrash act from Kovin in the Banat region, formed in 2026. CounterIgnition represents the newest wave of Serbian thrash 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.