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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Progressive and doom metal act from the Danube city of Smederevo formed in 2017, merging the structural ambition of progressive metal with doom's crushing weight. Their sound balances cerebral complexity with the slow-burning power of heavy riffs.
Thrash metal band from Braga, northern Portugal, formed in 2019. Capela Mortuária — Portuguese for 'mortuary chapel' — delivers aggressive thrash from the Minho region.
Death metal and grindcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2020. They deliver grinding extremity from the Catalan underground.
Symphonic black metal project from Lviv in western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Capitollium merges orchestral grandeur with black metal from the cultural capital of western Ukraine.
Black metal project from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver dark, atmospheric black metal steeped in occult themes from the industrial Ruhr Valley.
Black metal project from Wrocław, formed in 2025. Capricornus channels raw black metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Stoner metal band from Egersund on Norway's southwestern coast, formed in 2018. Captain Caravan delivers heavy, fuzzed-out grooves from Rogaland county.
Stoner metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, active since 2009. Originally rooted in punk rock, Captain Duff evolved toward heavier influences like Motorhead, Pentagram, and Orange Goblin, delivering a rough soundtrack for wild nights and wasted days.
Power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from the Greek capital.
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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.