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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Progressive metal band from Varaždin, Croatia, active since 2010. Cyclops explores complex arrangements and technical musicianship within the Croatian metal scene.
Black-death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse extreme metal darkness from the Granite City.
Death metal band from Chatellerault in the Vienne, France, active since 2008. They deliver crushing death metal from the central-western French countryside.
Experimental technical death metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of innovative activity, Cyclotron push death metal boundaries through avant-garde structures and technical virtuosity.
Athenian industrial metal project formed in 2011. Cygnosic merges cold electronic textures with metallic aggression, exploring dystopian and cybernetic themes.
Progressive and power metal band from Lier, Belgium, formed in 2017. Their growing catalog including 'The Empyrean Heaven' and 'The First Hour' showcases ambitious progressive metal with a focus on conceptual depth and musical sophistication.
Black metal project from Galway, Ireland, formed in 2017. Cyheuraeth — named after a Welsh spectral figure — conjures atmospheric black metal from Ireland's Atlantic coast.
Pagan black metal band from Torrelodones near Madrid, Spain, active since 2013. Named after a Welsh wailing spirit, they channel pagan and Celtic themes through black metal.
Groove metal act from Gothenburg, active since 2019. Cyhra — featuring former members of Amaranthe and In Flames — delivers polished, modern melodic metal from Sweden's metal 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.