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Featured Album
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Progressive death metal act from Oegstgeest, South Holland, with renewed activity since 2015 but a legacy stretching to the early 1990s. Creepmime is a cult name in Dutch progressive death metal.
Black speed metal project from Ukraine, formed in 2022. Creepotura channels high-velocity blackened extremity.
Brutal death metal act from Lucerne, Switzerland, formed in 2015. They deliver punishing, low-tuned extremity through grinding riffs, guttural vocals, and relentless percussive assault.
Avant-garde and progressive metal act from Cluj Napoca formed in 2022, crafting experimental compositions that challenge conventional genre expectations. Their boundary-pushing approach channels the creative energy of Romania's most vibrant university city.
Progressive melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They merge progressive complexity with melodic death metal harmonies.
Progressive death metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2015. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity from Merseyside.
Death metal band from Finland, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cremaster are veterans of the Finnish death metal underground.
Death metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2018. They channel pure death metal aggression with uncompromising intensity from Switzerland's largest city.
Death-thrash act from Wałbrzych in Lower Silesia, active since 2009. Cremathory has delivered over fifteen years of aggressive extreme metal from the Sudeten mountain region.
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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.