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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2016. Chaver blend black metal, crust punk, death metal, and groove metal into a fierce and unpredictable assault.
Black metal band from Durcal in Granada province, Spain, formed in 2017. Named after the holy creatures of the Hebrew Merkabah, they channel spiritual darkness through black metal from the Andalusian Sierra Nevada.
Black metal band from Mons, Belgium, active since 2013. They forge cold, atmospheric black metal from the Walloon industrial heartland, drawing on the genre's European traditions.
Doom-stoner band from Novi Sad, Serbia's second-largest city, formed in 2017. Cheap Moonshine delivers lumbering, fuzz-laden grooves from the Vojvodina capital.
Black-death metal band from Badalona near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2011. They merge voodoo-tinged darkness with blackened death metal from the Catalan coast.
Heavy metal band from Dorsten, Germany, active since 2013. They forge straightforward, riff-driven heavy metal from the northern edge of the Ruhr region.
Thrash metal band from Reutlingen, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver aggressive, fast-paced thrash from the Swabian Alb foothills.
Doom and sludge metal band from Bournemouth, England, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing doom-sludge from the Dorset coast.
Depressive black metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2010. Cheerful Depression — an oxymoronic name befitting the genre — channels deep melancholy through atmospheric black metal.
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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.