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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Sharing (2022)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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Death metal act from Løten in Hedmark, active since 2014. Criterion delivers crushing death metal from the rural Norwegian interior.
Heavy metal band from Manresa in Catalonia, Spain, active since 2005. With two decades of history, Criterivm are stalwarts of the Catalan heavy metal tradition.
Death metal band from Boulogne-sur-Mer on the Pas-de-Calais coast, France, formed in 2019. They deliver death metal from the Channel coast.
Groove metal band from El Masnou near Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven grooves from the Catalan coast.
Grind-thrash act from Stella Santa Giustina in Savona province, Liguria, formed in 2019. Critical Condition fuses grindcore intensity with thrash metal riffing from the Ligurian hills.
Thrash metal band from Bergamo, Lombardy, formed in 2025. Critical Damage brings fresh thrash energy to the Italian scene.
Technical death-thrash act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Critical Extravasation — a medical term for bleeding — delivers precise, technically demanding extreme metal.
Heavy metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2018. They deliver hard-hitting, riff-driven heavy metal with strong hooks and driving energy.
Thrash metal band from Węgrów in eastern Masovia, active since 2013. Critical Insanity has spent over a decade delivering aggressive thrash from the Polish countryside.
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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.