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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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Death metal band from England, formed in 2024. They channel perverse, extreme death metal darkness.
Death metal and grindcore band from Lahti, Finland. They deliver chaotic, grinding extremity from the Finnish lake district.
Death metal and goregrind band from Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, formed in 2024. They bring the filth and extremity of goregrind alongside crushing death metal from one of Bulgaria's oldest cities.
Black metal project from Nizhnevartovsk in the oil-producing region of western Siberia, formed in 2017. Cadaveris channels dark black metal from the frozen Khanty-Mansi heartland.
Grindcore band from the UK, formed in 2021. They deliver short, intense bursts of chaotic grinding fury.
Long-running Austrian extreme metal project formed in Graz in 1993, originally rooted in goregrind before shifting toward a death metal and neofolk hybrid. Their extensive catalog includes albums like 'Never Arrive, Never Return' and 'Burn Brightly Alone,' exploring dark, contemplative themes with experimental tendencies.
Black-speed metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2021. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with the velocity of speed metal from eastern Finland.
Death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023. They channel putrid, old-school death metal darkness from the German capital.
Blackened thrash act from Warsaw, active since 2011. Cadavra delivers raw, aggressive extreme metal from the Polish 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.