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Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Wild Child (2023)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They channel chaotic grinding extremity from the Finnish capital.
Crust-thrash act from Malmö, formed in 2021. Catachrest merges d-beat crust punk with thrash metal from Sweden's southernmost city.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
Doom and heavy metal band from Ostrołęka in northeastern Poland, active since 2014. Catacombat crafts slow, massive riffs with an old-school heavy metal foundation.
Progressive sludge metal act from Vale de Cambra in northern Portugal, active since 2008. Catacombe has spent nearly two decades merging progressive complexity with sludge weight from the Aveiro district.
Doom and drone metal band from France, formed in 2015. They craft massive, slow-moving walls of sound exploring the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
Black metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2016. They channel dark, catacomb-themed atmospheres through black metal from the Loire-Atlantique.
Technical melodic death metal band from Loppem, Belgium, formed in 2019. They combine the precision and complexity of technical death metal with the melodic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition, creating an intricate yet accessible sound.
Death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2022. Catafalque Draped — referencing a funeral drape — delivers funereal extremity from Russia's cultural 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.