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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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Crossover thrash act from Tromsø, far northern Norway, formed in 2017. Cult Member delivers punk-fueled thrash from above the Arctic Circle.
Sludge metal band from Grimsby, England, formed in 2017. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the Lincolnshire coast.
Death-thrash project from Portugal, formed in 2024. Cult of Alcaeus — named after the ancient Greek poet — channels extreme metal with classical allusions.
Black metal act from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2016. They channel ritualistic darkness and raw intensity through an uncompromising black metal approach.
Death-thrash act from Almere in Flevoland, formed in 2024. Cult of Carnage brings aggressive extreme metal to the Netherlands' newest province.
Gothic death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2021. Cult of Decay merges dark atmospherics with crushing doom and death metal.
Black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2016. Named after a deity from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, they craft occult black metal.
Death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2015. They channel apocalyptic themes through death metal from eastern Finland.
Death metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2017. They deliver uncompromising death metal aggression from the heart of the Cypriot underground metal scene.
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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.