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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Death metal, grindcore, and thrash metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge mountains, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver a relentless blend of grinding blasts and thrash-infused death metal.
Doom metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2017. They craft slow, crushing doom from the Aquitaine capital.
Progressive melodic death metal project from Catanzaro, Calabria, formed in 2024. Cardaemort brings technical ambition to southern Italy's extreme metal scene.
Gothic metal act from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cardamon brings dark, melodic atmospherics to the Dutch gothic metal tradition.
Czech heavy and thrash metal veterans from Zadverice-Rakova near Zlin, active since 1984. As one of the oldest metal bands in the Czech Republic, Cardiak have maintained a four-decade presence in the country's metal underground.
Power metal band from Hameenlinna, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver melodic, anthemic power metal from the historic Tavastian capital.
Thrash metal band from Stockholm, formed in 2020. Cardinal Maniac delivers sharp, maniacal thrash from the Swedish capital.
Progressive melodic death metal act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2012. Cardinal Points blends technical ambition with melodic death metal from the historic border city.
Heavy metal band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2018. They forge classic heavy metal built on powerful riffs, anthemic choruses, and traditional metal values.
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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.