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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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Technical brutal death metal band from Vigo/Camarinas, Spain, active since 2010. Their technically demanding approach pushes death metal to its most extreme limits from the Galician coast.
Drawing from Helsinki's metal heritage, this black/death metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2024. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Hellgeist is a groove metal band from Cuneo, Italy, active since 2025 and delivering heavy, rhythmic riffage with crushing mid-tempo intensity. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal.
Death metal band from Grefrath, Germany, formed in 2022. Their crushing approach channels the genre's most brutal traditions from the Lower Rhine region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Melodic death metal/metalcore band from Doberschau/Bautzen, Germany, active since 2010. Their polished sound bridges the gap between Gothenburg melodic death metal and modern metalcore from Upper Lusatia.
Hellguard is a heavy/power metal band from Bologna/Ferrara, Italy, active since 2024 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Hellhaim is a heavy metal band from Pruszków/Warsaw, Poland, active since 2015 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Speed/thrash/black metal band from Nurensdorf, Switzerland, formed in 2016. Their savage blend of speed, thrash, and black metal channels the most extreme end of the Swiss metal spectrum.
Hellhate is a black metal project from Lysychansk, Ukraine, active since 2013 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Ukraine black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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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.