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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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Depressive black metal project from the UK, formed in 2024. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal.
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Gothic and symphonic metal band from Seligenstadt, Germany. They blend orchestral grandeur and gothic atmospheres into a darkly melodic metal sound.
Finnish black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, cemetery-themed black metal steeped in death worship and Finnish darkness.
Melodic death metal band from Alexandroupoli in Thrace, Greece, formed in 2014. They craft melodic yet aggressive death metal from the northeastern Greek coast.
Doom, drone, and sludge metal band from Zweibrucken, Germany, active since 2015. They create massive, slow-moving walls of sound that explore the heaviest extremes of low-tempo metal.
Death metal band from Cambridge, England, formed in 2019. Celestial Sanctuary have built a strong reputation in the UK death metal underground with their old-school, crushing approach.
Technical death metal act from Norway, formed in 2023. Celestial Scourge brings punishing, technically demanding death metal to the Norwegian extreme scene.
Death-doom-stoner act from Nijmegen, with renewed Bandcamp activity since 2020 but a history stretching back to the early 1990s. Celestial Season is a veteran Dutch doom act, pioneering atmospheric death-doom in the Netherlands.
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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.