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Featured Album
Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Thrash metal outfit from Wolfsberg, Austria, formed in 2020. They deliver fast, riff-driven thrash in the classic vein, bringing high-energy aggression from the Carinthian metal underground.
Epic symphonic metal band from Leuven, Belgium, founded in spring 2013 when violinist Katrien began composing metal symphonies. Their debut 'Opus I: Dawn' fuses classical music and folk melodies with metal of all stripes, featuring violin as a central instrument.
Heavy and power metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2021. They deliver melodic, energetic metal from the Estonian capital.
Thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the Finnish capital.
Polish black metal act from Ełk in the Masurian Lake District, active since 2002. Catriona has spent over two decades crafting black metal from one of Poland's most remote northeastern regions.
Death-thrash outfit from Venice, formed in 2018. Cattivator of Death — blending the Italian 'cattivo' (evil) with English — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the lagoon city.
Brutal death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2018. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Death-sludge-thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. They blend three aggressive genres into a fierce, heavy assault from Finland's third-largest city.
Death metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver crushing death metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
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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.